Re: Structure of large link libraries in f95


Charles Russell wrote:

I cited LAPACK as an example that might be of general interest, and for
which LAPACK90 shows just how ugly option 2 can get. What I am really
interested in is what to do with my big library of old f77 math
routines, which I like to keep at my fingertips for model building,
should I switch to f95. The compiler would then have to do the kinds of
type checking that I now obtain with ftnchek.

I asked approximately this same question about five years ago, but
perhaps less clearly, and perhaps there has been some progress in the
interim.

Compile-to-archive was a commonly requested option about
ten years ago. It isn't intrinsically hard to do, but Sun's compiler
is not structured in a way that makes it easy. I don't know why
the requests for compile-to-archive stopped, but they did. If
people had continued to request it, Sun might have delivered it.

Bob Corbett

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