Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!deimos!uxc!tank!mimsy!haven!decuac!felix!info-ultrix From: pavlov@hscfvax.UUCP (G.Pavlov) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: f77 fort compiling Message-ID: <73124@felix.UUCP> Date: 3 Dec 88 15:59:03 GMT References: <71177@felix.UUCP> Sender: info-ultrix@felix.UUCP Reply-To: pavlov@hscfvax.UUCP (G.Pavlov) Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University Lines: 19 Approved: zemon@felix.UUCP Reply-Path: Reply-to: pavlov@hscfvax.UUCP (G.Pavlov) In article <71177@felix.UUCP>, mal@hjuxa.UUCP writes: > > Reply-to: hurf@ionvax.tn.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon) > > > > We have some compiling problems compiling f-77 code under fort. > > Tho I can't remember the details, f77 does some stange > things with symbols. DEC does not claim that lk will link > object created with f77. It is unsupported. > We've used both. I don't know (and won't argue) whether or not f77 "does some strange things with symbols". But what I can say is that fort will by you considerable performance improvement at the expense of portability. fort simply does not mix well with f77 or Ultrix C (maybe others as well; don't know because we haven't tried). greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny