Re: ENTRY statement

In article <7ivhllF3135fiU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Lionel <steve.lionel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When we developed the DEC Fortran 90 compiler, from a different code
base, a different method was used which did not have any sort of
"memory" of past arguments, and a lot of customers found that their
broken code was now really broken.

Yup :-) We had a lot of customers who switched between IBM and DEC,
and a FAQ was "Why doesn't my program work on the other?" This one
wasn't one of the main causes, but wasn't rare - and it could cause
failure in both directions, depending on the type of brokenness in
the code.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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