jgd@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (John G Dobnick,EMS E380,4142295727,) (03/18/89)
[This is crossposted to comp.lang.fortran and comp.unix.questions in hopes of finding someone who knows what's happening here. If there is a better place for this, please let me know -- these two groups seem reasonable.] Some of our users here have large FORTRAN codes that they wish to run on a Unix based system. (A tahoe running 4.3-tahoe bsd, to be specific.) These codes make significant use of NAMELIST for entering data -- significant to the extent that lack of the NAMELIST facility means a major rewrite. The manuals and documents for the f77 compiler discuss the NAMELIST feature, leading one to believe the compiler supports it. However, the compiler does *not* recognize NAMELIST. Examination of the compiler reveals why the parser does not recognize NAMELIST -- that particular code is specifically turned off. As far as I can tell from a cursory examination, the remainder of f77 implements NAMELIST. Does anyone know why this is turned off? Will something "break" if we re-enable that portion of the parser? [I have reported this as a bug to Berkeley via their "sendbug" mechanism about two months ago. At the risk of sounding pushy and ungrateful, I note that I have not received any feedback as yet. Is there another channel I should use for f77 problems?] -- John G Dobnick Computing Services Division @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee INTERNET: jgd@csd4.milw.wisc.edu UUCP: <backbone>!uwvax!uwmcsd1!jgd "Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight." -- William Safire -- -- John G Dobnick Computing Services Division @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee INTERNET: jgd@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
jerry@violet.berkeley.edu ( Jerry Berkman ) (03/18/89)
In article <1616@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> jgd@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (John G Dobnick,EMS E380,4142295727,) writes: > ... >The manuals and documents for the f77 compiler discuss the NAMELIST feature, >leading one to believe the compiler supports it. However, the compiler >does *not* recognize NAMELIST. Examination of the compiler reveals why the >parser does not recognize NAMELIST -- that particular code is specifically >turned off. As far as I can tell from a cursory examination, the remainder >of f77 implements NAMELIST. >-- >John G Dobnick >Computing Services Division @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee As I recall, originally the f77 compiler compiled code for namelist, but there was no code in the library, so you got a loading error. So the parser was changed to not compile code for namelist. Then in July, 1985, I added code for namelist I/O to the library, and the code in the compiler to compile namelist was enabled, and debugged (it had never been tested). Just to check, I just ran the following code: integer i(3) namelist /nnn/ i, j, k data i/ 100,200,300 /, j/100/, k/-99/ read (*, nnn ) print nnn end with the data: &nnn j=13, i(2)=-88 &end on monet, a 4.3 BSD VAX system at Berkeley, and it worked fine. The problem must be that you have an old copy of the software and new documentation. - Jerry Berkman, U.C. Berkeley, Central Computing Services jerry@violet.berkeley.edu