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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] f2c with record/structure sup
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In article <1993Jan11.230414.24760@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> cflatter@nrao.edu writes:
>In article 1545@fcom.cc.utah.edu, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>>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.
>
>IBM defected from the Luddite faction as early as May 1989. I believe that
>HP were long-time supporters of Fortran 90 as were Sun. Incidentally,
>Fortran 90 *is* backwards compatible with FORTRAN 77 but does not include
>some vendors extensions. User defined types have a syntax that differs
>from the VMS Fortran style adopted my Microsoft.
Yah. I was thinking in particular of the VMS FORTRAN
"pass-by-reference/pass-by-value" and "pass-by-descriptor" syntax and
the Harris Berkeley real-time extensions on VOS for the H-800/H-1000/H-1200.
There was also a problem with the use of integer overflow to produce the
pseudo-random numbers used in some physics calculations.
Harris was anti-90 from word one due to its real-time systems contracts
with the US Navy... there's an old joke that goes with that, since the
computers were primarily for use on nuclear submarines.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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