Calling FORTRAN from C (Was: Need matrix inversion C routine).
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Tue May 2 06:16:20 AEST 1989
>Is there anything in pANS C, Fortran 8x, and POSIX that will alleviate this
>situation?
No, because:
1) the proposed C 89 standard says little if anything about
FORTRAN (or is that "Fortran" now?);
2) I suspect the Fortran 8x standard will say little if anything
about C;
3) the C 89 standard and probably the Fortran 8x standard will
probably say very little indeed about calling sequences, or
other compiler-dependent and machine-dependent implementation
details;
4) POSIX doesn't say anything about them either.
>It's very annoying, especially these days when all of the really
>high quality numerical stuff is still in FORTRAN and all of the good user
>interface stuff is in C.
This is a "quality of implementation" issue, and was left to the
marketplace; avoid the "there oughta be a law" syndrome.
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