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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: the f2c program
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Date: 11 Aug 90 20:25:42 GMT
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On the computer research.att.com is a program called "f2c". It converts
Fortran programs to, mostly, C. But it does NOT convert Fortran IO
calls to C. Instead it just invokes some mysterious io routines. I
take these to be somebody's Fortran IO runtime library - indeed, there
are linking with certain libraries. But WHOSE libraries? Would someone
with a Unix machine and NO Fortran compiler have these routines? IF
so, exactly WHOSE Unix? I can't believe that the many different Fortran
compilers out there would use the same runtime. So, whose will this
thing work with????

Doug McDonald(mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu)