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From: tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Calling FORTRAN from C (Was: Need matrix inversion C routine).
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Date: 17 May 89 05:11:33 GMT
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In article <8197@june.cs.washington.edu> ka@june.cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist) writes:
_The problem of differing calling conventions could be solved with a
_stub generator....
_ The standard would
_have to give standard names to the initialization and cleanup entry
_points for the run time systems, so that a program with a C main routine
_could initialize the FORTRAN run time system, and vice versa.
_				Kenneth Almquist


In calling fortran from C I would like to avoid the fortran library as
much as possible.  On our system the fortran i/o junk is almost 100k,
stripped.  I tend to use fortran just for LINPACK and other stuff that
does no i/o, so I hate the waste.
-- 

|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps@chem.ucsd.edu