johnl (01/21/83)
#R:sentry1:-138600:ima:20400001:000:644 ima!johnl Jan 20 11:33:00 1983 Uh, sorry to disagree and pick this nit, but Fortran, both Fortran 66 and Fortran 77 are deliberately ambiguous about the argument passing scheme. Either of passing arguments by address and defererencing the pointer each time or copying in the argument and copying it out when you're done are legal. There are a lot of programs in System/370 land that depend on value/return, but the Fortran 77 standard makes it quite clear that such dependency is a no-no. I had to figure out all of this nonsense when I was writing INfort (Interactive's f77 for small systems.) John Levine, decvax!yale-co!jrl, ucbvax!cbosgd!ima!johnl, research!ima!johnl