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From: dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas)
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Subject: Re: PD/shareware Fortran compiler for Atari ST
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Date: 10 Mar 90 19:21:49 GMT
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In article <900309083947.691399@DMZRZU71-UNI-MAINZ--GERMANY>Ritzert@DMZRZU71.BITNET writes:
>I will start porting f2c as soon as my gcc1.37 is complete (which will
>take 1-2 weeks due to the speed of bitftp). f2c converts Fortran code to
>its C equivalent. Its based on the "real" *nix f77. Compiling the
>resulting c-code with pcc-based c-compilers leads to nearly identical
>executables as the f77-compiled original. f2c is free software.
>
>Michael


Don't count on it.  We have some *BAD* FORTRAN code here that f2c fails on.
If the FORTRAN is nice and clean it may work without any problems. 
Expect to hack the converted code to make it work.


-dav