Message-ID:	<19970728144352.08929@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 1997 14:43:53 +0200
From:	Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
To:	Miguel Murillo <mmurillo AT ideafix DOT cps DOT unizar DOT es>
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: What diffence is it? fort77 and g77
References:	<Pine DOT LNX DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970725183705 DOT 1915A-100000 AT ideafix DOT cps DOT unizar DOT es>
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In-Reply-To:	<Pine.LNX.3.95.970725183705.1915A-100000@ideafix.cps.unizar.es>; from Miguel Murillo <mmurillo@ideafix.cps.unizar.es> on Fri, Jul 25, 1997 at 06:43:46PM +0200

On Fri, Jul 25, 1997 at 06:43:46PM +0200, Miguel Murillo wrote:
> 
> There is diffence : fort77 and g77
> The g77 is True Compiler fortran or preprocesor C/C++/f2c

I don't know of fort77 but if you mean f2c vs g77, I can tell you that
g77 is the GNU Fortran frontend to gcc, the GNU C compiler.

f2c has been developed by S. Feldman at AT&T research labs,
who was one of the people laying the grounds of f77. 

I'm still thinking g77 needs some time to mature while f2c is a very
ripe 'product'. The fact that the latter is producing C as an intermediate
product can be made invisible and - though it may seem more a disadvantage -
can be of greater benefit in understanding parameter passing mechanisms
and allow for some optimizations.

I'd go for f2c. I've compiled hundreds of thousand lines of f77/FORTRAN code
with it. 

> 
> Please help!
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