> Anyone know why libf2c* was renamed to libg2c* in egcs? Cygnus has hacked (possibly considerably) Bell-Labs' libf2c. To the point a program written to the EGCS's FORTRAN lib wouldn't be linkable with libf2c. Thus they felt the need for a unique name.
> Does egcs have a replacement for f2c? Yep, g77. :-) f2c was written to compile FORTRAN programs. It was quicker for the f2c authors to write f2c to output C code than ASM, *AND* it meant they didn't have to deal with code generation, nor optimization. However, there are many optimizations the code generator can do if it knows the input language was FORTRAN. Thus a native FORTRAN compiler (ie, g77) is preferred. f2c was never meant to be a FORTRAN to C translator in which you then maintained the resulting C. > Would anyone object if I installed the header file, g2c.h, along with > the library? Since you seem to believe it is useful, I'll install it. -- -- David (obr...@nuxi.com -or- obr...@freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
