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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: f77 compiler bugs
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Date: 12 Jun 90 06:31:57 GMT
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In article <90162.010506GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Arnold G. Gill) writes:
>
>     The following source code generates the errors indicated.  Our machine is
>a 120, running RISC(OS) 4.30.  Two separate bugs are presented, both having
>something to do with character strings.  Note that neither of these bugs was
>apparent in the previous f77 compiler that we had (using RISC(OS) 3.10).

Both of these bugs are fixed in the new F77 release.

If you are currently running RISC/os 4.0 through 4.30 and intend to stay at
that OS release for the forseeable future, and you have a software maintenance 
agreement, you may get a copy of the 4.0-compatible build, called compilers
release 2.10, by contacting Customer Services through the Customer Response
Center at 1-800-443-MIPS in the USA and Canada.  (Elsewhere, call your area
support office.)  Be sure to request both FORTRAN and the Base Compilers (C)
tape.

If you intend to upgrade to the latest OS release, 4.50, as soon as it becomes
available, and these problems are not critical, you will receive the 4.50-based
compilation of the new compilers, called the 2.11 release, automatically
within approximately the next two months.
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