Fortran Main with C I/O
Mike Rovak
mike at DRD.Com
Fri Sep 21 23:22:32 AEST 1990
bill%biomel at cs.dal.ca wrote:
} In article <1044 at helens.Stanford.EDU> joe at hanauma.Stanford.EDU (Joe Dellinger) writes:
} >
} >We just got the latest OS upgrade, which is the first one to be
} >"POSIX-compliant". Now we are told "if you want to be able to use C I/O
} >you'll have to have your mains in C"! This means rewriting a LOT of software.
} >
} > OK. Are we really a special case? Is there anybody else out there
} >that writes Fortran mains but uses C to do the I/O? If so, let me know, so
} >we can make a case to them not to do this!
}
} This would be an absolute disaster. We use C I/O extensively for things
} like graphics, raw input, and to do things like display a file directory
} when asking the user to input a data file name. If true, someone had
} better come up with a fix awfully fast!
Not a problem, guys. Make a C main function whose sole purpose is to call
the Fortran routine. Change the word "PROGRAM" in each Fortran routine
to "SUBROUTINE" and your job is done.
-- Mike
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