How Broken is Sun Fortran (Summary)
Richard Stead
stead at beno.CSS.GOV
Thu Feb 7 07:38:29 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb4.194628.12615 at tukki.jyu.fi>, eloranta at tukki.jyu.fi (Jussi Eloranta) writes:
>
> on Fortran 1.3.1 I've found the following problems:
>
> 1) Sometimes loader complains about mysterious 'mcount' symbol...
> I checked the program and it didn't have a symbol with that name.
[ one more specific complaint, and some vague complaints deleted ]
I don't know about your other complaints, but this one is due to compiling
some of your code for profiling, but linking it non-profiling. The mcount
variable is used by the profiler. Compile and link your code either with
or without profiling, but don't mix it. This is not specific to Fortran 1.3.1.
> And all these were found during 4 days. So there is probably more to come :-(
If they are all like this first one, the rest of us have nothing to worry
about.
> And they call it fortran compiler ...?
No, the thing that uses mcount they call a profiler.
Richard Stead
Center for Seismic Studies
stead at seismo.css.gov
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