the f2c program

[Henry Spencer]

In article <937 at gistdev.gist.com> flint at gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) writes:
>f2c seems to do a reasonable job of translating, if you don't want to
>have to work with/on the resulting C code, but only need to compile it.

Maintainable C code was specifically *not* an objective of the f2c project.
The intent is that you maintain the Fortran.  The f2c tech report comments
that producing maintainable C automatically seems to require some amount
of manual intervention even using commercial ($$$) translator programs.
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