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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!destroyer!gumby!wmu-coyote!john From: john@sol.cs.wmich.edu (John Kapenga) Subject: Re: fortran compiler --- is it an existent species ? Message-ID: <1993Sep3.204154.2322@sol.cs.wmich.edu> Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept. References: <11520@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 20:41:54 GMT Lines: 38 In article <11520@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>, sourlas@nimbus.seas.ucla.edu (Dennis Sourlas) writes: > i would like to configure my 486dx2/66 so that it can do > > * multitasking and has the > * ability to perform some of my number crunching through fortran > programs (32-bit compiler a must) > > these are hard constraints (especially the second). > > so far i have not been able to locate any fortran compiler for > 386bsd (or Linux). do i have to look into other operating > multitasking operating systems (OS/2, NT) or should i settle > for regular dos/windows 3.1 software (ms powerstation fortran)? > > the f2c solution does not solve my problem since i have found that > such software is not robust and very user unfriendly (think about Many people have used f2c on 100,000 line production code systems with great success. Allowing one to forget there is a C translation going on. Just treat the whole process like a fortran compiler. I find this more robust than many commercial systsms. > debugging). gdb works correctly with the fortran source when used properly with f2c. > > thanks, > dennis. cheers - john (or you could wait for g77) -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ John A. Kapenga Department of Computer Science Ma Bell: (616)387-5657 Western Michigan University Internet: john@cs.wmich.edu Kalamazoo, MI 49008