Re: G77 question (re: libg2c)

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

libg2c is the library for Fortan routines, it is written in c.

The name is way it is because they were originally for f2c.

g77 is a real compiler unlike f2c were f2c converts the fortan 
code into c.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski



On Saturday, July 27, 2002, at 03:00 , Gregory Z wrote:

> My friends:
>
> Does libg2c have anything to do with c? The question boils
> down to whether there is much difference in concept between
> g77 and f2c (or f77 and f2c, for that matter). What has me
> hooked on this question is the "to c" implied in the moniker
> "libg2c". I understand that libg2c is a set of libraries to
> handle GNU Fortran routines that the compiler does not do
> directly. Are these libraries written originally in C? Or in
> assembler?
>
> Incidentally, I am using this on Win32, and looking forward
> to full F90 and 95 capability (Fortran 2000 is a long ways
> off, I'm sure). I first used Fortran in high school in 1976,
> haven't seen it much since, and it is a pleasure to have my
> own system with Fortran on it now. Thanks so much!
>
> Gregory Zelchenko
>
>
> --
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