sanders@menlo70.UUCP (Rex Sanders) (12/05/83)
References: <960@sdchema.UUCP> I ran your example program (that modifies the values of constants passed to subroutines) on a Honeywell Multics system: ---------- d*fortran con New Fortran 10.1 d*con Error: no_write_permission condition by >user_dir_dir>Pascalx>RSanders>con|65 (line 36) referencing >user_dir_dir>Pascalx>RSanders>con|0 level 2,10d* ---------- On Multics, programs are split up into many areas, and constants are in the same read-only segment as the executable code. Unix f77 is a step back to IBM 360 Fortran G&H in this respect. The old IBM compiler had many interesting "features", which I will bore no-one with unless asked - preferably in net.lang.f77. -- Rex, the ancient Fortran hacker