kopaz@garfield.RDL.COM (John 'Echo' Kopaz) (07/27/88)
i just recently aquired the book _fortran 8x explained_ by metcalf and reid, oxford press 1987. (i highly recomend it.) i have an alliant that uses the 8x std (although i haven't checked to see how close it abides to it) and would like to use 8x on the other machines. so.... i was wandering if there were any implementations of 8x available for vaxen and suns (3 and 4). a sun4 implementation is my main concern because this machine is my other compute server. (i realize that the std is not fixed yet, so the implentations might not be completely compatable.) tanx echo ps. could someone email me a brief update on what the x3j3 committee is doing. -- john a. kopaz | group head, simulators | ...after six, it's just syntax... research scientist by association | voice: 213-410-1244 -- fax: 213-216-5940 -- corporeal: rdl arpa : kopaz@rdlvax.rdl.com 5721 w. slauson ave. uucp : ...!{psivax,csun,sdcrdcf,ttidca}!rdlvax!kopaz culver city, ca 90320
dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison) (07/30/88)
In article <133@garfield.RDL.COM>, kopaz@garfield.RDL.COM (John 'Echo' Kopaz) writes: > > i was wandering if there were any implementations > of 8x available for vaxen and suns (3 and 4). > > a sun4 implementation is my main concern because this machine is my other > compute server. > > could someone email me a brief update on what the x3j3 committee is doing. > john a. kopaz | The X3J3 committee met in May and meets again next week (if I remember correctly). The committee has gotten some 600 comments, 400 before the deadline. A privately circulated summary of the last meeting is somewhat omnious. After reading it, my opinion is that the proposed standard is DOA; they'll probably have to chuck it out and start again. I personally favor them adopting the F77 standard as a base and adding bits, pointers, and includes. As I said in my comments to the committee, nice language, too bad it's not Fortran. -- dan davison/theoretical biology/t-10 ms k710/los alamos national laboratory los alamos, nm 875545/dd@lanl.gov (arpa)/dd@lanl.uucp(new)/..cmcl2!lanl!dd "I think, therefore I am confused"