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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran vs C for computations
Message-ID: <3962@lanl.gov>
Date: 21 Sep 88 19:46:54 GMT
References: <459@quintus.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <459@quintus.UUCP>, by ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe):
>     it is NOT possible to apply cpp usefully to "a" standard Fortran
>     program which already exists (which I have been denying).

I have several standard Fortran programs which already exist to which
cpp can be usefully applied.  What you are trying to claim is that is is
possible to find a standard conforming Fortran program (presumably more
than one) which causes cpp to generate bad results.  No one has ever
denied that.  But even thos can be rewritten to avoid cpp's problems.
Failing that - write a preprocessor in standard conforming Fortran.
Then ship your preprocessor to any site that you ship your other source
to.

J. Giles
Los Alamos