Reply to post: Re: Old stuff sticks around

Fortran greybeards: Get your walking frames and shuffle over to NASA

MarkSitkowski

Re: Old stuff sticks around

Just don't try to use that compiler on legacy code, like SPICE. Through the misguided idea that people use Fortran to write new code, they 'updated' it, to the point where it fails miserably on memory management, misinterprets the common block and bitches about Hollerith formatting. I believe it isn't actually a compiler, but a preprocessor, which converts your Fortran to 'C', then runs that through gcc. I've seen the same approach used by other Fortran so-called 'compilers'.

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