Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!chris From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: Re: does Fortran 77 allow recursion? Message-ID: <1351@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 01:51:35 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1351 Posted: Fri Aug 23 01:51:35 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:34:46 EDT References: <4152@alice.UUCP> <103600003@ima.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 15 >From: johnl@ima.UUCP > >You might hope that some Fortran systems that disallow recursion would at >least detect it and barf, by having an "active" flag for each routine. >But no, not in any compiler I've ever seen. > >John Levine, ima!johnl The F77 compiler I just tried my recursion example on (it's an "almost 4.3" F77) said "Warning on lineof : recursive call". -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@maryland