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From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net>
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Subject: Re: f77 man page needs updated
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>Number:         17616
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Re: f77 man page needs updated
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
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>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 26 20:30:02 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Sun May 28 07:55:04 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Sun May 28 07:57:15 PDT 2000
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>Description:
 Randall Hopper:
  |>Synopsis:       f77 man page needs updated
 ...
  |	f77(1) says "From the user side of view this FORTRAN to C
  |	translation is completely transparent - f77 looks like a
  |	traditional FORTRAN compiler."
  |
  |        However, pop this in a file:
  |
  |                SUBROUTINE XMDF2T(APARM)
  |                IMPLICIT DOUBLE PRECISION(A)
  |                INTEGER  INT1
  |                DATA FR/0D0/
  |                INTEGER  INT2
  |          99998 END
  |
  |        and compile using "f77 -c tst.f":
  |
  |        Error on line 5 of tst.f: Statement order error: declaration after DATA
  |
  |        f77 compilers will eat this, but f2c will not.  This is briefly
  |        mentioned in f2c.ps.
 
 I found a tool that pre-chews FORTRAN so that f2c can digest it.  It also
 comes with a "f77" front-end script:
 
      http://www-hermes.desy.de/ww/f77prob.html
 
 Expect a port soon.
 
 Randall
 
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>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-doc 
Responsible-Changed-By: asmodai 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Apr 5 04:35:32 PDT 2000 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Belongs to doc. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: steve 
State-Changed-When: Sun May 28 07:55:04 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Followup to bin/17611. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=17616 
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