[comp.lang.fortran] NAG Compiler, was Re: comp.lang.fortran

chidsey@smoke.brl.mil (Irving Chidsey) (06/28/91)

In article <1991Jun27.125026.14993@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:
<In article <5821@cernvax.cern.ch> julian@cernvax.cern.ch (julian bunn) writes:
<>
<>.... For the purposes of tool testing, I have
<>constructed a 200-line set of garbage Fortran code. Using a mainframe
<>compiler, this code generates 2 warning errors, and is thus
<>presumably considered ready for execution. Converting the code
<>to f90 source form and running it through NAG's f90chk, I get
<>47 error messages and 33 warning messages, all of them correct.
<
<OK, now for wwhat we're all waiting to hear:  how did the code produced by
<f90chk compare in execution time with that produced by the running the 
<200-line garbage Fortran program through a vanilla Fortran compiler?
<
<Peter S. Shenkin, Department of Chemistry, Barnard College, New York, NY  10027

	With 47 undetected errors in 200 lines, end of execution should
have arrived commendably quickly, or been postponed forever.  I vote for
ending commendably quickly, with lots of output.   In 'core' 8-).

											Irv

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