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From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: NAG Fortran 90 announcement
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Date: 26 Jun 91 17:53:55 GMT
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In article <1991Jun25.233323.17684@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>, rap@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Robert Pearson) writes:
|> [...]
|> 	It is quite possible to write C that translates to vector;
|>  espescially if one writes it 'like' fortran and uses the alias array-args
|>  on the compiler. I have found some 'quirks'.

Yes, if you use local extensions or non-standard features, _any_ 
language can have vectorization capability added.  The question
was whether the output of the NAG Fortran "compiler" or of f2c
will vectorize.  I suspect not.

J. Giles