From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 21 01:50:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA20758 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 01:50:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA20750 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 01:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA25308; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:45:30 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA08335; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:58:08 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199608210858.KAA08335@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Fortran users anywhere? To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:58:08 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608201853.LAA10786@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Aug 20, 96 11:53:09 am" Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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