Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu: khan owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:48:24 -0600 (CST) From: Mumit Khan To: "Robinow, David" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Where could I find f2c? In-Reply-To: <80575AFA5F0DD31197CE00805F650D7602CE68@wilber.adroit.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Robinow, David wrote: > > in order to translate some fortran files into C. > Don't do this. Use g77. Actually, there are certainly very valid reason for using f2c, and is essential in at least one particular one -- automatic single to double precision promotion via -r8 flag (g77 is one of the very few compilers that do not support it, and lots of legacy code depend on this being available). There are ways to do this via various regexp tricks, but just not worth the risk. Regards, Mumit -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple