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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: Fortran77--->C(++)?
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Date: 16 Jun 91 22:41:37 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.114003.23662@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <1991Jun15.114003.23662@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> erhugo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Eric R Hugo) writes:
| Has anyone out there had any experience translating algorhythms adapted
| to work in Fortran to work in C or C++.  Is this possible or are the
| languages soooo different that it would be easier to not even look at
| the Fortran source code?  Any pointers would be appreciated. ;-)

  AT&T has released the code for the unix f77 compiler, which compiles
FORTRAN into C code. That certainly sounds like a start. I pulled it at
work and got it working on a Sun, and was intending to port it to DOS
for use with djgcc, so people would have a free FORTRAN, too.

  Unfortunately my job has changed again, and I have no time to
continue, nor at that time disk space to save. One of the TP guys can
tell you where to find it, it's possible you could use it on a unix
system and do something with the C code. The code emitted is not
beautiful, nor is it always readable.
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