Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!NewsServ!k2 From: k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: f77 compiler bug (both MIPS and SGI) Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 13:50:54 GMT References: <1991Jun19.162129.2870@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1991Jun17.224729.15190@rice.edu> <1991Jun18.191622.4008@odin.corp.sgi.com> <1991Jun19.133207.24629@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <1991Jun20.075058.10576@groucho> Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Lines: 23 pbickers@tamaluit.phys.uidaho.edu (Paul Bickerstaff) writes: >2)There is an obscure rule in f77 which requires that data >statements come after declarations and before the other >program statements. Most compilers don't require this (and >I have a suspicion that earlier versions of the Mips compiler did >not either or we probably would not have bought a Mips) >but somebody in their wisdom has decided that the Mips compiler >will conform with the standard. Please, how about a flag that will >let this pass. I've written a PSR to CDC regarding this just yesterday. Today, they told me that the next version of the compiler (2.20) of the compiler accepts the intermixing of declaration and data statements. Sincerely, Klaus Steinberger -- Klaus Steinberger Beschleunigerlabor der TU und LMU Muenchen Phone: (+49 89)3209 4287 Hochschulgelaende FAX: (+49 89)3209 4280 D-8046 Garching, Germany BITNET: K2@DGABLG5P Internet: k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de