[Mingw-users] Re: Consistent output from C and Fortran

[Brian E. <be...@me...>]

Keith MARSHALL <kei...@to...> writes:

Thanks for the hints, Keith.

> I didn't think the `\n' notation was supported in ANSI FORTRAN-77;
> surely you should use `char(10)', for standards conformance. 

Oh, I didn't know that. But the \n is only treated as two individual
characters until it is passed to c isn't it?

> (You are probably also aware that strict ANSI FORTRAN-77 conformance
> requires all symbol names to be limited to six characters, and free
> of case sensitive distinctions.  

Is it case insensitive or is upper case only?

Yes, perhaps I didn't mean ansi as in true ansi. I meant fortran77
using only the extensions supported by most modern compilers.

> of the call -- there's no getting away from this, if you want it
> to work reliably.

OK.

> In C, you have to add this yourself.  In your example, your
> `mexPrintcaller-()' wrapper could append this, for a possibly
> cleaner interface.

Yes, I don't know why I kept it the other way.

> A trick I've used in the past, (I haven't written any FORTRAN code
> in years), is to have a FORTRAN function something like

Good trick, of course I should just look for non-blanks from the end.

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