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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Sun 3 vs uVAXII floating point speed....
Message-ID: <12764@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 88 06:37:24 GMT
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References: <25065@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <3381@phri.UUCP> <59936@sun.uucp> <247@texhrc.UUCP>
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In article <247@texhrc.UUCP> ldm@texhrc.UUCP (Lyle Meier) writes:
[something apparently missing here]
>calling conventions, but rather sticks to the vms standard methods. ...
>[The] VAX [/VMS] fortran compiler insists on passing character variables
>by descriptor ... [this] behavior is different from the f77 compiler
>which passed chars in a form C could understand.

Descriptors are not incomprehensible.  You must simply create a few
structure definitions, and do the interpreting yourself.

>and on uppercasing all entry point names.

This also should not be a serious problem.  If the compiler does not
prepend an `_', however, you will have to resort to assembler linkages,
or to hackery (running the assembly code from /lib/ccom through sed).
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