mca@ut-emx.UUCP (bill spiesman) (06/29/90)
I am trying to find a good Fortran compiler that will run under XENIX on my 386 system; does anybody know pros and cons for the available compilers?? MS-Fortran was written for a 286, but will run on a 386/387 system. LPI-Fortran is written for a 386, but costs more; is the expense worth it? What about other fortran compilers like NCS-Fortran? Send reply to: spiesman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov
john@cstreet.uu.net (John Poplett) (07/02/90)
In article <32830@ut-emx.UUCP> mca@ut-emx.UUCP (bill spiesman) writes: > > I am trying to find a good Fortran compiler that will run under > XENIX on my 386 system; does anybody know pros and cons for > the available compilers?? > C Street Software resells 386/486 compilers from Silicon Valley Software. I have used their compilers for years and can speak for their quality. SVS FORTRAN-77 derives from mature 32-bit compiler technology. Silicon Valley Systems has also implemented SVS FORTRAN-77 on the Motorola 680x0, the NS32000 and Motorola 88000 processor architectures. The 386/486 implementation shares front end language recognition and optimization components with its sister implementations. It complies with ANSI X3.91 - 1978 and Mil-STD-1753 and supports extensions such as a double-precision complex data type, INTEGER*1, INTEGER*2, a binary file type, value parameter passing, DO WHILE and END DO language constructs and INCLUDE statements. SVS FORTRAN-77 supports Hollerith in DATA and assignment statements and in argument lists, hexadecimal I/O format control, and arrays as format specifiers. SVS FORTRAN supports the 80387 and the Weitek numeric coprocessors It generates inline code for either. The compiler received a very favorable review in the May 28, 1990 edition of Unix Today! where it was compared against LPI FORTRAN and NDP FORTRAN 386. In the report card, it received these marks (i.e. these are quotes from the article): Documentation / Pro Fine as guid or reference. Exhaustive descriptions of code optimization schemes. / Con Some errors (missing appendix). Features / Pro Forgiving of code kludges. / Con Engineering / Pro Tour de force. Fastest code in shortest time. Engineering / Con Support / Pro Excellent. Direct access to developers. Support / Con Performance/Value / Pro Fast code. Lowest price. / Con From C Street, SVS FORTRAN-77 with driver, runtime support and printed manuals is priced at $795. Send us your US mail address if you want to be on our mailing list. Otherwise, feel free to contact me by phone or email. Also, if you email me some code specimens, C Street will compile them and send you a synopsis of compile and run times (this offer also applies to SVS C as well). John -- John Poplett @ C Street Software | "Shutup", he explained. 312 Wolff St. Oxnard, Ca. 93033 USA | ~ Ring Lardner (805) 486-7807 / uunet!cstreet!john |