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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Does anybody know of the existence of ...
Summary: AbSoft linker seems OK to me
Keywords: Fortran
Message-ID: <1989Jul13.130349.27872@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 13 Jul 89 13:03:49 GMT
References: <222@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <222@nikhefh.hep.nl> t19@nikhefh.hep.nl (Geert J v Oldenborgh) writes:
>- a faster & better linker for Absoft Fortran, the official one I have does 
>  not link externals, does not link f77.rl, and is slow.  for debugging I 
>  link dynamically, but at 10 min/point this is getting expensive,

I have version 2.3, and both versions 2.2 and 2.3 link f77.rl if you use
the y option.  I don't understand the problem with externals.  I
routinely link a main, several external files, my own library, and the
runtime library to create stand-alone applications.

One problem I do encounter is that sometimes a link has to be done twice
if there are backwards references in the libraries.  This is a minor
delay, and the use of scripts makes things easy.

>                Geert Jan van Oldenborgh,
>                NIKHEF-H, Amsterdam,
>                t19@nikhefh.hep.nl

>PS.  Are there any other quantum field hackers on the net?

I'm not sure what a quantum field hacker is, but I used to indulge in
condensed matter field theory when I was young and foolish.  Much like
high-energy, except that you treat temperature like imaginary time!

-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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