Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!mimsy!aplcen!osiris!phil From: phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: call by address (was Re: compilers and linkers) Message-ID: <1466@osiris.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 11:26:20 EST Article-I.D.: osiris.1466 Posted: Wed Nov 25 11:26:20 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 11:06:39 EST References: <1783@culdev1.UUCP> Lines: 16 Summary: RT-11 FORTRAN IV "broken" too In article <1783@culdev1.UUCP>, drw@culdev1.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes: > The [FORTRAN II] language manual pointed out that using constants for > arguments that were assigned to was invalid. They wised up when they > wrote Fortran IV. Dale, who are "they"? Anyway, this is an *implementation* bug, not a design bug. The RT-11 FORTRAN IV compiler I used on LSI-11 systems as recently as 1982 (RT-11 v4? I'm not sure) still had this bug; I know, I tested it myself to see. :-) ...!decvax!decuac!\ Phil Kos ...!uunet!mimsy!aplcen!osiris!phil The Johns Hopkins Hospital ...!allegra!/ Baltimore, MD