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From: rtp1@tank.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Microsoft Fortran for the Mac
Message-ID: <7048@tank.uchicago.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 90 04:30:13 GMT
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>I have been trying to use version 2.2 of the Microsoft Fortran
>compiler for the Mac and have been experiencing some problems.  The
>major problem is that for small array sizes the program seems to work
(.. but for large arrays it doesn't).
    I have used Fortran on huge arrays with no problem. However, if
you are working under Multifinder, you must explicitly set the 
memory requirements via Get Info, or the program will just 
disappear into the ozone, perhaps taking your mac with it.  If 
the large arrays are dynamically allocated in subroutines, 
there can also be problems with overflowing the application heap.