Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ncar!noao!arizona!naucse!rrr From: rrr@naucse.UUCP (Bob Rose ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C vs. FORTRAN Summary: malloc? Message-ID: <774@naucse.UUCP> Date: 11 Jul 88 16:41:53 GMT References: <3136@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <225800038@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <892@garth.UUCP> Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ Lines: 12 In article <892@garth.UUCP>, smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes: > The big deal is that anything that can be done in C can be done in > fortran--it's just a question of how understandable is the resulting > muckety mess. Lets see malloc or alloca[1] in fortran without some low level routines in some other language. Also recursion, yes you can make your own stack but how big do you make this stack? -bob [1] alloca normally need to be written in assembly on most machines and some need it built into the compiler (inline or whatever).