[comp.sys.sgi] Undocumented Feature

afleming@watsci.waterloo.edu (Allan Fleming) (05/05/90)

Under 3.2 using the f77 compiler - when porting a program from VMS I 
discovered that doing the following:

f77 -vms test.f

caused the -onetime option to be invoked - producing rather non-VMS like
behaviour. 

(please don't say RTFM - I did and the manual doesn't mention that 
-vms is now -vms_cc and that -vms no longer appears to be a valid 
switch, if the manuals agreed with the online man pages or the compiler
warned me that -vms was no longer supported I may have saved a fair bit 
of time)

Allan Fleming

deb@kea.wpd.sgi.com (Deb Ryan) (05/09/90)

In article <1990May5.131121.8226@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, afleming@watsci.waterloo.edu (Allan Fleming) writes:
> Under 3.2 using the f77 compiler - when porting a program from VMS I 
> discovered that doing the following:
> 
> f77 -vms test.f
> 
> caused the -onetime option to be invoked - producing rather non-VMS like
> behaviour. 
> 
> (please don't say RTFM - I did and the manual doesn't mention that 
> -vms is now -vms_cc and that -vms no longer appears to be a valid 
> switch, if the manuals agreed with the online man pages or the compiler
> warned me that -vms was no longer supported I may have saved a fair bit 
> of time)
> 
> Allan Fleming


Well, you're right.  All I can say is "fixed in next release." Of course,
if you use the documented -vms_cc, you don't get the bug.

					-Deb
					 deb@sgi.com
 					 Deborah Ryan Caruso @ Silicon Graphics