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Subject: Re: F77 on a DECstation 3100
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Date: 30 Jun 89 06:16:20 GMT
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In article <441c0027.1a5bf@moth.engin.umich.edu> grue@caen.engin.umich.edu (Paul Howell) writes:
>
>Has anyone had problems with F77 for the 3100?  I have a sample
>program that does not compile (bad number of arguments to intrinsic function).
>
>	program easy
>	print *,time()
>	end
>
>This works fine on a VAX running Ultrix.  The man page on time indicates
>time takes no arguments, and returns the number of seconds since the epoch.
>Also, other intrinsic functions appear not to work, or are not in the 
>fortran library (ld error says it's not there!), like fl_min, fl_max.
>I've heard that F77 for the 3100 is not BSD F77 but a versions specific
>to the 3100.  Why is it broke?

Probably a mismatch between the MIPSco software and the DEC
documentation. Try providing time with an integer 0. 

cheers

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