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From: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Microsoft Fortran
Keywords: optimizer
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Date: 11 Apr 90 12:32:48 GMT
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In article <215@dean1.usma.edu> aj4640@dean1.acd.usma.edu writes:
>I ran into a strange problem with the new Microsoft 5.0
>Fortran compiler.
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>                     Also, running the compiler with
>the optimizer disabled (/Od, I think) also stopped the
>problem.

I've had similar problems with the MS compilers (and others, including
Sun's) that has led me to be F77 optimization shy.  I also got some
commercial F77 source code where the installation manual recommended
disabling the optimizer since, in their words, most F77 compilers have
*awful* optimizers.

Robert

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