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| g77 libU77 |
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| This directory contains an implementation of most of the `traditional' |
| Unix libU77 routines, mostly an interface to libc and libm routines |
| and some extra ones for time and date etc. It's intended for use with |
| g77, to whose configuration procedure it's currently tied, but should |
| be compatible with f2c otherwise, if using the same f2c.h. |
| |
| The contents of libU77 and its interfaces aren't consistent across |
| implementations. This one is mostly taken from documentation for (an |
| old version of) the Convex implementation and the v2 SunPro one. |
| As of g77 version 0.5.20, most of these routines have been made |
| into g77 intrinsics. Some routines have a version with a name prefixed |
| by `vxt', corresponding to the VMS Fortran versions, and these should |
| be integrated with g77's intrinsics visibility control. |
| |
| A few routines are currently missing; in the case of `fork', for |
| instance, because they're probably not useful, and in the case of |
| `qsort' and those for stream-based i/o handling, because they need |
| more effort/research. The configuration should weed out those few |
| which correspond to facilities which may not be present on some Unix |
| systems, such as symbolic links. It's unclear whether the interfaces |
| to the native library random number routines should be retained, since |
| their implementation is likely to be something one should avoid |
| assiduously. |
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| This library has been tested it under SunOS4.1.3 and Irix5.2 and there |
| has been some feedback from Linux; presumably potential problems lie |
| mainly with systems with impoverished native C library support which |
| haven't been properly taken care of with autoconf. |
| |
| There's another GPL'd implementation of this stuff which I only found |
| out about recently (despite having looked) and I haven't yet checked |
| how they should be amalgamated. |
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| Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> Aug '95 |
| (minor changes by Craig Burley <burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Aug '97) |
