bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) (05/08/91)
In article <1991May1.140618.22880@cs.hope.edu> jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping) writes: |I'm posting this for a friend who does not have USENET access. Please |reply directly to me and I'll summarize. | |This friend has an Intergraph system he is developing software for. His |software is in FORTRAN and, when he started, he acquired a FORTRAN compiler |from Intergraph. It is apparently a GreenHill F77 compiler. | |He has had no end of trouble. First, Intergraph had no manual -- and |told him to use the DEC FORTRAN compiler manual. Then he began to notice |very wierd and sometimes subtle errors. Like a 3-line program compiling |and linking to a 108 KBytes object module -- 88K after stripping. Like |programs with > 7000 lines crashing the compiler. Like very strange |placement of certain data structures in memory. | |His original compiler was copyrighted "1983-1988"; his second release |from Intergraph was copyrighted through 1990, but eliminated only a few |of the wierd errors he found. At least he got a manual. | |HELP! Has anyone had this kind of experience? Is this the Compiler from |Hell or did he just get the wrong releases? Are there workarounds? | |Thanks for all the help I can get. As I said, send responses to me and |I'll summarize. | | Mike Jipping | Hope College Department of Computer Science | jipping@cs.hope.edu (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE) -- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario a /i/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `\o\-e UUCP: ...!utai!mnetor!becker!bdb _< /_ "The really important problems require greater earnestness" - J. Cage