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From: hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is there a fort2c?
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Date: 6 Dec 89 01:38:57 GMT
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Ryan Moats (jayhawk@cbnewsh.ATT.COM) asks:
>Is there, was there, will there be a tool to convert fortran
>code to C code.

The following sounds like what you might be looking for:

>From: Norm Schryer <nls@research.att.com>
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 89 17:17:35 EST
>Subject: Fortran 77 to C Converter Available via Netlib
>
>The Unix command
>
>    (echo filter f2c; cat file) | mail netlib@research.att.com
>
>converts the Fortran 77 in "file" to C and returns it via email.
>
>The converted C requires a "header" file which can be obtained by:
>
>    echo "send f2c.h from f2c" | mail netlib@research.att.com
>
>The command
>
>    echo "send index from f2c" | mail netlib@research.att.com
>
>returns an index of useful f2c information available from Netlib
>including a "man page", source for libraries, etc.
>
>F2c "just" prints out the C parse tree internally produced by f77,
>the reliable old Fortran 77 compiler of Stu Feldman.
>The programming was done by D. M. Gay of Bell Labs and
>Mark Maimone of Carnegie-Mellon University.
>
>The usual caveat applies:
>    The service is free and you get what you pay for.
>
>An additional caveat is that a daemon saves the Fortran submitted
>to Netlib so we can do regression testing on f2c.
>
>We intend to put f2c in the public domain and want as much
>experience with it as possible before foisting it on the world.
>
>Comments, questions and complaints to
>
>        Norm Schryer, nls@research.att.com, 201-582-2912.

Since you both work for AT&T, maybe they'll even let you use it directly
instead of over the network.

Kurt W. Hirchert     hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications