From: zevans@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zack Evans) Subject: Re: Fortran, f2c and so on... Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 19:33:12 GMT
In article <20sjcg$1ag@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> fricke@ikki.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Fricke) writes:
>There are several questions about FORTRAN and Linux.
>
>1. Is there any Compiler?
> The answer is NO, but there is a fortran-to-C converter (f2c),
> which allows to translate STANDARD F77 into K&R C, Ansi C or C++
> (optional).
I think the FSF are working on a Fortran compiler to compliment gcc...does
anyone know any more about this, like when it's likely to be finished?
f2c might not be a good way to compile fortran programs, but
1) It works
2) It's free
3) It's the only way to compile fortran under Linux.
Zack