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- From: dubuf@sicsun.epfl.ch (Hans DU BUF)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Ultrix Fortran alternatives?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.122112@sicsun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 10:21:12 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.210101.10249@nmt.edu>
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- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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- In article <1992Aug11.210101.10249@nmt.edu>, dcuddihy@nmt.edu (David Cuddihy) writes:
- |>
- |> We are currently running with the Fortran that came with the Ultrix 4.2
- |> release and we have had troubles with inconsistencies, for example code that
- |> runs on our Suns, miscellaneous workstations at other sites, supercomputer
- |> machines, etc... don't compile or have slightly different functionality on
- |> the Ultrix f77(and occasionally vice-versa).
- |> Since we are trying to write generic code, we aren't too interested in
- |> how to get it to run on the Ultrix(and hence not on all of the other machines)
- |> Instead we were wondering what other Fortran compilers there are out there...
- |> (If there was something public domain that could be imported via ftp, that'd
- |> be ideal!)
- |>
- |>
- |> Thanks in advance,
- |> -Dave
-
- Does f77 mean the K&R portable compiler? I had some problems too, one was
- that I could not write to internal files. A pain.
- But now we have the ULTRIX FORT compiler, which is, as far as I can see,
- completely equivalent to the VMS compiler, and the sources can be compiled
- on any machine (sun, sg, cray, maspar, cm).
- One small problem was that the old Silicon Graphics f77 did not accept
- line comments starting with a !, but the new version does now.
- Hans
-