Sun 3 vs uVAXII floating point speed....

[Chris Torek]

In article <247 at texhrc.UUCP> ldm at texhrc.UUCP (Lyle Meier) writes:
[something apparently missing here]
>calling conventions, but rather sticks to the vms standard methods. ...
>[The] VAX [/VMS] fortran compiler insists on passing character variables
>by descriptor ... [this] behavior is different from the f77 compiler
>which passed chars in a form C could understand.

Descriptors are not incomprehensible.  You must simply create a few
structure definitions, and do the interpreting yourself.

>and on uppercasing all entry point names.

This also should not be a serious problem.  If the compiler does not
prepend an `_', however, you will have to resort to assembler linkages,
or to hackery (running the assembly code from /lib/ccom through sed).
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