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Re: FreeBSD Fortran Failure
Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >>>>> "Toon" == Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> writes:
> >> Any idea why io1.f fails on FreeBSD?
> Toon> The last condition might point to the culprit - perhaps
> Toon> autoconf "finds" an ftruncate on FreeBSD that doesn't
> Toon> conform to the specs I wrote this change to.
> That sounds like a reasonable guess.
> FreeBSD's `ftruncate' man page says:
> DESCRIPTION
> Truncate() causes the file named by path or referenced by fd to
> be truncated or extended to length bytes in size. If the file
> was larger than this size, the extra data is lost. If the file
> was smaller than this size, it will be extended as if by
> writing bytes with the value zero. With ftruncate(), the file
> must be open for writing.
> RETURN VALUES
> A value of 0 is returned if the call succeeds. If the call
> fails a -1 is returned, and the global variable errno specifies
> the error.
> Is that different from what you expected?
This is indeed what the code in gcc/libf2c/libI77/endfile.c expects.
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