From: Clive Page <cgp AT le DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: PARAMETER not accepted by G77
Date: 4 Apr 1997 11:32:20 +0100
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>myself previously: with the compiler f77 I used on the UNIX machine, a
>PARAMETER statement would look like
>    PARAMETER NCOMP=11
>To be accepted by G77, it must be written
>    PARAMETER (NCOMP=1)

In other words, g77 likes the PARAMETER statement to conform to the
Fortran77 Standard.  The form without parentheses was originally a PDP-11
Fortran variant (as far as I remember) but a few later compilers also
accepted it, presumably as an act of kindness to elderly programmers who
could not be bothered to write standard Fortran.  But such kindness only
stores up problems for the future, as you have discovered.

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Clive Page,                         Internet: cgp AT star DOT le DOT ac DOT uk
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University of Leicester.