bchen@roo.caltech.edu (Bing-Qing Chen) (03/11/91)
Does anyone else notice that Abosoft Fortran usually will not give the correct results? Or am I the only one who is being so unlucky that the only 2 Fortran program I have tried to compile with Absoft Fortran gave wrong results? One of the program is just a direct port from a C program, the results I got from all other Fortran compilers and f2c were identical to the C result. But the Abosoft result is off by nearly 20%! The other program is a VMS Fortran program. This one even gave different results on different processors (030 next and 040 next), but neither of them are correct. Anyway, if you use Abosoft Fortran, be sure to check the result with f2c or other Fortran compilers. In fact, f2c is not only faster and free it will even give the right result! - Bing Chen bchen@pooh.caltech.edu