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From: john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: diff between f77 and FORTRAN-XLTP
Summary: Pretty much the same thing
Message-ID: <368@polyof.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 88 13:12:18 GMT
References: <10600014@bradley>
Organization: Polytechnic University, Farmingdale NY
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In article <10600014@bradley>, tychan@bradley.UUCP writes:
> Is there a lot of difference between ATT 3B2 "f77" and the ATT
> FORTRAN-XLTP, their compiler that uses the floating point co-processor.

We have something call FORTRAN-XLA (It's probably the thing your interested in.)
Yes, it appears to be f77 in disguise.  Same error messages, same libraries.
We did, in fact, port SPICE 2G to it successfully, however, there are a couple
of bugs in the compiler, most notable (the one that caused the most trouble),
was a function call in a 3-way IF statement:

	IF(FUNCX)10,20,30
This caused 2 evaluations of FUNCX(), which can cause trouble, if your FUNCX
routines does input, for example, or changes variables...

Otherwise it worked fine.

john@polygraf.bitnet
john@polyof.poly.edu