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Date:      Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:58:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fortran users anywhere?
Message-ID:  <199608210858.KAA08335@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199608201853.LAA10786@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Aug 20, 96 11:53:09 am"

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> > Don't shoot me; I'm not the guilty party...
> > 
> > I'm looking for anyone that has any experience with (and maybe documentation
> > for) the f2c fortran->C translator that's used by the 'f77' gcc frontend.
> > 
> > I see the reference in the manpage to one of the UTS manuals - are these
> > generally available?
> 
> UNIX Timesharing System
> 
> No, they aren't generally available, at least not as originals.
> 
> I personally used Ultrix and AT&T FORTRAN manuals when hacking up the
> shell scripts.  They are both hacked versions of the UTS manuals (the
> AT&T version less hacked, and somewhat less useful).
> 
> 
> I've use the thing to compile up simulation software for relativistically
> invariant P-P, P-N, and N-N collisions, and to apply physical models
> as the soloution to a set of 13 irreducable Feynman-Dyson diagrams
> as part of a theoretical confirmation for experimental data regarding
> the energy range of the carrier of the weak force (Dr. Jay Phippen's
> work).

Wow, Terry, is High Energy Physics your hobby? ;-)

> 
> The resulting code on a Sun SS2+ was facter than the native FORTRAN
> on a VAX 8800 with vector processor by about a factor of 10, and the
> output was identical, once I hacked the random functions in for the
> Montecarlo for the event generator (they are missing from the FORTRAN
> library that comes with the package).
> 
> > (I have the Bell Labs CSTR 149 document, but this covers f2c's internals
> >  rater than its usage.)
> 
> It's pretty vanilla UNIX F77.  I believe there are version of the
> UTS documents still available from UNIX Press.  If you had asked me
> two years ago, I could have sent you an old copy.  8-(.

 From a mail conversation about this with dmg@research.att.com:

>       Both volumes were published by Saunders College Publishing
>       ISBN 0-03-047532-5 and 0-03-047529-5 (yes, isbn(vol2) < isbn(vol1))
>       at one time they could be ordered at +1 800 782 4479


> 
> If you can dig up an old Ultrix FORTRAN manual, you will have pretty
> much what you need.
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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