the f2c program

[Doug McDonald]

On the computer research.att.com is a program called "f2c". It converts
Fortran programs to, mostly, C. But it does NOT convert Fortran IO
calls to C. Instead it just invokes some mysterious io routines. I
take these to be somebody's Fortran IO runtime library - indeed, there
are linking with certain libraries. But WHOSE libraries? Would someone
with a Unix machine and NO Fortran compiler have these routines? IF
so, exactly WHOSE Unix? I can't believe that the many different Fortran
compilers out there would use the same runtime. So, whose will this
thing work with????

Doug McDonald(mcdonald at aries.scs.uiuc.edu)