From: jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () Subject: Re: Fortran, f2c and so on... Date: 2 Jul 1993 14:24:26 GMT
In article <MUTS.93Jul2102313@muts.hacktic.nl> muts@muts.hacktic.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
>On Thu, 1 Jul 1993 00:06:28 GMT, ken@phys.titech.ac.jp (Ken-ichiro Aoki) said:
>
> > f2c might not be a good way to compile fortran programs, but
> > 1) It works
> > 2) It's free
> > 3) It's the only way to compile fortran under Linux.
>
> KA> I will also add that in my experience, it is robust. It has
> KA> been around long enough so I suspect it is bugfree than some of
> KA> the commercial products.
>
>It is, but alas does not work for some programs I have to use :(. The
>problem is with some obscure format statements, that use a variable
>size. I don't know the details, but I have the feeling that the format
>statement is not fully implemented.
>--
Ummm...could it possibly be that the "obscure format statements" that
won't work under f2c are not conformant to the F77 standard, but are
actually a vendor's own personal "extension" to the F77 standard...
It doesn't help you either way, *but* if it is infact an extension
and not a lacking in f2c, then if you plan to port this software
to other machines, you might consider changing the format statements
to conform to the standard...otherwise you're likely to run into this
problem again...
John
jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov