Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!att-ih!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!pur-phy!clt
From: clt@pur-phy (Carrick Talmadge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: A/UX F77 compiler
Summary: The A/UX f77 compiler doesn't work.
Message-ID: <1013@pur-phy>
Date: 8 Mar 88 01:19:32 GMT
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Organization: Purdue Univ. Phys Dept, W.Lafayette, IN
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Last week I sent out a query regarding the A/UX Fortran compiler,
which didn't appear to work.  Apple has since confirmed that they
distributed in their initial release of A/UX a broken f77 compiler.

The f77 compiler which we received does not support the 68881 chip.
The f77 libraries, however, were compiled assuming the '881 chip.
Consequently, any calls to the standard f77 floating point libraries
give bogus results.

The f77 compiler also does not work with the "-g" flag  (you can't
even successfully link an executable in this case).

Thought you might like to be warned...

Carrick Talmadge			Disclaimer:  I don't use f77
clt@newton.physics.purdue.edu		personally, so no hassles, ok?