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From: garrett@oscar.ccm.udel.edu
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Subject: Re: FORTRAN standards checker
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Date: 7 Jun 89 17:50:03 GMT
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In article <11636@cgl.ucsf.EDU>, seibel@cgl.ucsf.edu (George Seibel) writes...

>In article <248@pvi.UUCP> karenk@.com() writes:
>>Does anyone know of a program that does FORTRAN standards checking and
>>runs on VAX/VMS, or Sun, or HP-9000? Ideally, it would:
>>
>>1. flag all non-standard constructs (e.g. mixed character and non-character
>>   in a common block, non-standard characters like '!').
>>
>>2. check for agreement between called and calling subroutines in number and
>>   type of parameters.
>>
>>It would also be nice if it could check for unused variables, variables set but
>>never used, and variables used but never set.
> 
The IBM VS FORTRAN compiler does a pretty good job of flagging some of these
things.  The ICA (Inter-Compilation Analysis) tool will catch inconsitent
usage across program units for arguments to subroutines.  The FIPS option will
flag all non ANSI fortran coding, etc.  You can see what routines, labels, etc
aren't in use by using the XREF stuff.  Now if only they could do something
about the operating systems you have to use to run this very nice compiler
(VM/MVS/etc...) (Guess this wasn't much help, you wanted VAX solutions, etc.
doesn't DEC sell a layered software product that will do most of this stuff?)

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