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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] f2c with record/structure support
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In article <1993Jan10.211632.3269@ll.mit.edu> pope@ll.mit.edu (Frank Pope) writes:
>Hi
>
>Does anyone out there know of a f2c translator which has been ported to
>386bsd that has support for fortran records and structures.  I believe
>these are features found in FORTRAN 90 [not sure].  I want to
>convert some software written using MS Fortran 5.1 to c and run it 
>under 386bsd.  Thanks in advance.

I don't know of many compilers, let alone translators, which support '90.

Historically, the ANSI-90 FORTRAN was rejected by most major vendors,
either due to a lack of backward compatability or conflicts with vendor
extensions (depending on the vendor); it was rejected by Harris, DEC,
HP, and IBM... dunno if Sun was involved at all.

The differences are significant enought that you will probably have to
do a fair bit of work to hack the most recent 386BSD translator (ftp'able
from ref.tfs.com).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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