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From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: f2c misbehaving?
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Date: 22 May 91 22:19:25 GMT
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In article <33089@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>Here are the two outputs.  In this demo, nothing serious is
>affected but it represents a difference between a fortran program
>and a f2c translation.  This makes using f2c in more complex
>situations difficult.
>
>           from f2c                             from f77
>
>   .4906713927148187177321-197	  0.4906713927148187177321-197
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Since you didn't say what difference you thought you saw, it is a little
difficult to answer the question.  The only obvious difference is that f77
provides the optional zero before the decimal point, and f2c omits it.  Both
are standard-conforming.

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Dave Seaman
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