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From: MICPRF@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: f2c - great but I found a bug (I think)
Message-ID: <4736@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: 5 Oct 90 19:21:23 GMT
References: <4710@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University
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In article <4710@lure.latrobe.edu.au>, I (MICPRF@lure.latrobe.edu.au wrote):
> It's a while since I browsed through this newsgroup, but the comments
> here on f2c prompted me to post something about my experience with
> f2c and a possible bug in it.
..........
> Now I am wondering - did anyone else see this happening?
> Was it a genuine bug and has it since been fixed?
> Apart from this I think f2c is great. The S code I was installing
> is a massive package written in a mixture of C, fortran, ratfor, efl,
> and other unix critters many of which generate fortran code which is
> subsequently compiled. There are hundreds of interlinked routines and
> f2c handled it all ok ...........

As a result of email between the creators of f2c and myself, I
now know that the bug was genuine, AND more importantly that it
was fixed some months ago. I'm posting this so potential users of
f2c will know that this is so and won't be put off by my earlier
bug report. f2c is great .. no buts.
 				Paul Fisher (micprf@lure.latrobe.edu.oz.au).