Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal
- To: "George N. White III" <gnwiii@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@gmail.com>, Christian Holm Christensen <cholm@nbi.dk>, Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>, debian-toolchain@lists.debian.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org, debian-science@lists.debian.org, pkg-scicomp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, camm@enhanced.com, pkg-octave-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, muammarelkhatib@gmail.com, kmccarty@debian.org, piem@debian.org
- Subject: Re: fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal
- From: "Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:49:45 -0700
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George N. White III wrote:
> This transition should not be a tied to gfortran and the gcc toolchain. When
> the code has to change, it should be made to conform to current standards,
> or in a few years we will doing it all over yet again. One approach would be
> to adopt the POSX Fortran bindings, the other is to use the current Fortran
> standard. The former has pxf_getarg(), while the latter provides:
>
> call GET_COMMAND_ARGUMENT(iarg, buf, ilen, ierror)
>
> There was an open source implementation of the POSIX fortran bindings
> by Ron Shepard at ANL, and at least one independent implementation has
> been mentioned on c.l.f.
>
What do you suggest for *C/C++* code that, for whatever reason, needs to
call GETARG() or whatever the modern equivalent is from a FORTRAN library?
best regards,
--
Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu> Physics Department
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