Re: Online F77 information...

Gordon Sande wrote:
(someone wrote)

Also the F77 compilers are extremely simple to compile and link to get
a working program or list of errors. No switches are needed. e.g: MS
F77:
FOR1 myprogram <ret>
PAS1 <ret>
LINK myprogram <ret>

Why does Fxx need more compiler switches than Fyy? For any xx and yy!

I find that I can compile to a executable with

The original DOS Fortran compiler, in the days of floppy disks and
before fixed disks (what IBM used to call them), the compiler required
multiple passes, each on a different floppy. The first would write
an intermediate file, that later passes, I believe PAS2 and PAS3
would read. (PAS3 generated error messages, and was only needed
if there were errors.) I believe that PAS2 and PAS3 were not
named for being subsequent PASses, but as the second and third
part of the PAScal compiler. The many versions designed for
hard disk storage still had multiple passes, with a driver program
to run them from one command.

-- glen

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