Re: weird g77 and gfortran

K-9 wrote:
> Good question. I'm trying to use g77 because i'm trying to develop
> some fortran77-only code. Of course yes i can go with gfortran. I was
> just curious to see the reason.
> 
> Thanks.

Real functions have always been bizarre for reasons I never quite 
understood, but which had to do with there being no standard convention 
for how the return value is passed. Even in otherwise compatible object 
files made by two different compilers they might not work.

At the point that I discovered this particular little weirdity, I just 
gave up using them in mixed language programming - it wasn't worth the 
hassle of never knowing if they would work.

Catherine.
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