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From: bill@ur-cvsvax.UUCP (Bill Vaughn)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: assign bug in f77 (4.2bsd/VAX)
Message-ID: <204@ur-cvsvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 00:40:30 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 21 00:40:30 1985
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Organization: Center for Visual Science, U. of Rochester
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I haven't seen any bug fixes to f77 since we've installed Don Seeley's version
late last year.  Pardon me if I've missed this one.

Description:
	The f77 VAX code generator creates illegal instructions ("cvtll")
	whenever the target of an 'assign' statement is an integer*2
	variable.

Repeat-by:
	Run the following program through the f77 compiler:

	integer*2 i
	assign 10 to i
	goto i
10	continue
	end

	The assembler reports an error of this form: 
Assembler:
"/tmp/fortxxxxx.s", line 21: "cvtll" is not followed by a ':' for a label definition

Fix:
	1. Don't use integer*2 variables as targets of 'assign' statements.
	2. Wait for someone to post a fix to the f77 VAX code generator.

Bill Vaughn
Univ. of Rochester
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