386/387 Fortran compilers
John Poplett
john at cstreet.uu.net
Mon Jul 2 22:18:08 AEST 1990
In article <32830 at ut-emx.UUCP> mca at ut-emx.UUCP (bill spiesman) writes:
>
> I am trying to find a good Fortran compiler that will run under
> XENIX on my 386 system; does anybody know pros and cons for
> the available compilers??
>
C Street Software resells 386/486 compilers from Silicon Valley
Software. I have used their compilers for years and can speak
for their quality.
SVS FORTRAN-77 derives from mature 32-bit compiler technology.
Silicon Valley Systems has also implemented SVS FORTRAN-77 on
the Motorola 680x0, the NS32000 and Motorola 88000 processor
architectures. The 386/486 implementation shares front end
language recognition and optimization components with its sister
implementations.
It complies with ANSI X3.91 - 1978 and Mil-STD-1753 and supports
extensions such as a double-precision complex data type, INTEGER*1,
INTEGER*2, a binary file type, value parameter passing, DO WHILE
and END DO language constructs and INCLUDE statements.
SVS FORTRAN-77 supports Hollerith in DATA and assignment statements
and in argument lists, hexadecimal I/O format control, and arrays
as format specifiers.
SVS FORTRAN supports the 80387 and the Weitek numeric coprocessors
It generates inline code for either.
The compiler received a very favorable review in the May 28, 1990
edition of Unix Today! where it was compared against LPI FORTRAN
and NDP FORTRAN 386.
In the report card, it received these marks (i.e. these are quotes
from the article):
Documentation
/ Pro Fine as guid or reference. Exhaustive descriptions
of code optimization schemes.
/ Con Some errors (missing appendix).
Features / Pro Forgiving of code kludges.
/ Con
Engineering / Pro Tour de force. Fastest code in shortest time.
Engineering / Con
Support / Pro Excellent. Direct access to developers.
Support / Con
Performance/Value
/ Pro Fast code. Lowest price.
/ Con
>From C Street, SVS FORTRAN-77 with driver, runtime support and printed
manuals is priced at $795.
Send us your US mail address if you want to be on our mailing list.
Otherwise, feel free to contact me by phone or email. Also, if you
email me some code specimens, C Street will compile them and send
you a synopsis of compile and run times (this offer also applies
to SVS C as well).
John
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