derek@sask.UUCP (Derek Andrew) (10/12/84)
We are looking for an alternative to the Berkeley FORTRAN-77 for
a 4.2BSD system. The most important feature would be a lack of
bugs. Improved execution time would be nice too. Commercial
implementations welcome.
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Derek Andrew, ACS, U of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 0W0
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"I ain't afraid o' no bugs." - Bugbustersgwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (10/16/84)
There are two simple solutions to the buggy 4.2BSD F77 behavior. One is to apply Donn Seeley's bug fixes that have been posted to net.bugs.f77 (I think these will be in the next Berkeley release). The other is to use the UNIX System V Release 2 F77, either with trivial changes to fit the 4.2BSD utilities or under the BRL UNIX System V emulation. I do not yet have a comparison between the two but I do know that both are much better than the original 4.2BSD version.