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From: kaufman@Shasta.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77,net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Subroutine bug with 4.2 BSD F77.
Message-ID: <642@Shasta.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 25-Jun-86 13:06:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 25 13:06:15 1986
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Reply-To: kaufman@Shasta.UUCP (Marc Kaufman)
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In article <5657@alice.uUCp> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> I'm sorry people.  As has been pointed out to me by various people,
>> one needs a forward declaration of bug in order to over-ride the
>> default typing of Fortran.
>
>> This was brought to my attention by a local user.  My previous
>> experience with Fortran has been with Fortran IV in the old days
>> of punched cards.  Both the compilers I used previously would have
>> used extensions.
>
>
>I'll bet bet it wouldn't have worked in "the old days,"
>at least not on IBM systems.  IBM mainframes have separate
>integer and floating-point registers.  There's just no
>way that the compiler could do the right thing without
>the declaration.

There are old days and *OLD* days.  It would have worked just fine
with Fortran IV (previously called FORTRAN IV) on the IBM 7090!