fortran to C translator
Ralph Carpenter
ralphc at tekcae.CAX.TEK.COM
Tue Jan 23 05:40:20 AEST 1990
In article <1990Jan21.183457.15676 at druid.uucp>, darcy at druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
> In article <10364 at saturn.ucsc.edu> daniel at saturn.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson) writes:
> >Does anybody know of a Fortran to C translator that has
> >successfully been used to translate a significant body
> >of code?
> >
> >If anyone does not of such a beast, I'd greatly appreciate
> >an email response since I don't regularly read this newsgroup.
> >
> I have been waiting patiently for someone to post the answer to this
> question rather than waste bandwidth asking the same question that seems
> to get asked every week. I REGULARLY READ THIS NEWSGROUP and don't just
> jump in when I need something. Will someone please *post* the answer
> to this question.
>
> We now return you back to your regularly scheduled flames.
>
>
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What follows is a copy of email I sent to Daniel Edelson:
I have an acquaintance of many years that translated a very
large finite element program and element library from fortran to C,
approximately 100,000 fortan source lines, successfully. He used
FOR_C, running on DOS systems. The translated code runs on all sorts
of systems, microVaxes included.
The address and phone I have for the publisher of FOR_C is:
Cobalt Blue
2940 Union Ave
Suite C
San Jose, Ca. 95124
Tel. (408) 723-0474
Fax. (408) 377-7648
The address and phone of a distributor (less expensive, mail order source)
The Programmer's Connection
7249 Whipple Ave NW
North Canton, OH 44720-7137
Tel. (800) 336-1166
Fax. (216) 494-5260
The price from the Programmer's Connection, including surface UPS shipping is
$442 with binary runtime, ($575 list).
$673 with runtime sources, ($875 list).
The above info. is from the Winter 1990 catalog, which I just recieved, so
should be current.
The Cobalt Blue people will send you a demo disk for about $10. The demo
is a crippled version that will convert a subroutine from fortran to c as
long as the input is 1k char or less.
If you have any good or bad experiences to share along the way, please keep me
informed. I have a year old demo that generated pretty good code.
One additional note. I recently purchased a very nice package of fortran
clean up utilities from: Quibus Enterprises, 106 N. Draper Ave.,
Champaign, IL 61821, Phone (217) 356-8876, for about $139. They work very
well, and are very quick. So far as I can tell, they are bug free.
Ralph Carpenter
Tektronix, Inc.
Beaverton, OR.
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