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From: eloranta@tukki.jyu.fi (Jussi Eloranta)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: How Broken is Sun Fortran (Summary)
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.194628.12615@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 4 Feb 91 19:46:28 GMT
References: <3140@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <1991Feb04.013025.8087@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Feb04.013735.8220@ariel.unm.edu>
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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on Fortran 1.3.1 I've found the following problems:

1) Sometimes loader complains about mysterious 'mcount' symbol...
   I checked the program and it didn't have a symbol with that name.

2) For example:
                                                                        !72-col
            WRITE(6,'(//10X,'' AN UNOPTIMIZABLE GEOMETRIC PARAMETER HAS'
     1',/10X,'' BEEN MARKED FOR OPTIMIZATION. THIS IS A NON-FATAL ''
     2,''ERROR'')')

   Bombs since the line continuation occurs between two ' characters.
   (works ok if I wrap one of ' chars to the other line).
   This works on every single fortran compiler I've seen except sun fortran!

And I've also got very strange error messages from lines that don't even 
exist! I don't remember these and don't know what the fix was... a friend
of mine fixed it. This has something to do with include files & parameter defs.

Also the 16 (?) KB record limit on write was reall great :-(
The program just dumped core if one tried to write a record > 16 KB...
but there is a patch to fix this problem.

And all these were found during 4 days. So there is probably more to come :-(

And they call it fortran compiler ...?

jussi

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