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From: khb@fatcity.Sun.COM (fatcity)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: DO loops, anyone? - Lahey F77L output
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Date: 17 Mar 89 22:53:35 GMT
References: <458@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> <2964@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
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In article <2964@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) writes:
>In article <458@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu>, bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes:
>
>Here is what Lahey's F77L PC compiler thought of the example:
>
>FATAL - Label (501) appears in transfer context outside DO range or BLOCK IF
>(See Section 8.0 in F77L Manual), line 5.
>

Tom (and his merrie band) builds one of the best debugging compilers
(i.e. useful for debugging the user code) in the world. All of the
defaults are set for safety, and there are a lot of safeguards!

If you must use a PC, use Tom's compiler. I bought a PC (before I came
to sun :>) to sit alongside my mac just to run his fortran. It was
that much cheaper than using the toy compiler from Absoft on the mac.

Course, the mac compilers are more numerous now, but f77l is still
better for code development.

I have no connection with LCS; I used to be a beta site, and I pushed
a few million lines of code through various versions.

Now, if LCS would just join the net ....


Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus