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From: jaxon@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: RFC: Driver actions
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Date: 17 Oct 89 09:40:11 GMT
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/* jbc@hpcllmv.HP.COM writes: */

>  In the Unix world of Fortran compiler, almost all f77 drivers have the 
>following two options:

>  -c          Suppress loading and produce `.o' files for each source file.
>  -o outfile  Name the output file from the linker outfile instead of a.out

> [What if you use both?]
> If you feel that the output file should be named outfile, then what [about]
> multiple source files?

>	f77 -c -o outfile prog1.f prog2.f prog3.f

I'd expect the driver to produce one file of relocatable object code, called
"outfile", containing the code for prog1.o, prog2.o, and prog3.o.  The "-r"
option of ld(1) would be used here.  

Greg Jaxon  Univ. of Ill. Center for Supercomputing R&D