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From: jeffrey@ccnysci.UUCP (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Looking for a FORTRAN compiler for the 3B1
Summary: Is there C/F77 "linkability" here?
Keywords: FORTRAN, UNIXpc, 3B1, LPI, RM
Message-ID: <2099@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 01:56:50 GMT
References: <1250@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Reply-To: jeffrey@ccnysci.UUCP (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Followup-To: comp.sys.att
Organization: City College Of New York
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In article <1250@oswego.Oswego.EDU> dab@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Dave Bozak) writes:
>	I'm looking for advice.  A colleague wants to get a FORTRAN compiler
>for his 3B1.  TRC sells two of them, both the same price:
>
>	LPI FORTRAN  and RM FORTRAN
>
>So, who has experience with these?  Which is the better product?
>Are there other, better FORTRAN compilers available for the machine?

Perhaps a better question is:
	Will any of these allow linking f77 code to C code (the way
Berkeley's f77/C compilers do)?  How about gcc linking to the f77
stuff?

Reason: We use the NCAR graphic system here at CCNY and would like to
port it over to some of our 3B1's, but it uses f77 calls mixed in with
a lot of C (the whole foundation of the package).  The Fortran would
be pretty much useless if it was unable to be co-compiled with C.  I
believe (I am not totally sure) that LPI Fortran is a standalone
package with no ability to bind to C.  I have "gleaned" this from a
professor who used it for a while.
-- 
Jeffrey L. Bromberger
System Operator---City College of New York---Science Computing Facility
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