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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: assign bug in f77 (4.2bsd/VAX)
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Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 14:26:15 EDT
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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.

  Well, you must have missed one of the bug fixes, because your test
program compiles, assembles and links just fine on our 11/750. I even tried
a more complicated program to verify correct operation of the assign statement.

--Greg
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