[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[John Reagan]

"Rob Brooks" <brooks at cuebid.usa.hp.nospam> wrote in message 
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> "John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
>
>>
>> During the port to Itanium, we instrumented the IMACRO compiler to print 
>> out
>> various internal statistics in the .LIS file (near the command qualifier
>> summary).  One of them was the total number of flow blocks found by the
>> compiler's flow analyzer.  This, along with the number of entry/exit 
>> points;
>> routines jumping into each other; etc. was used to compute a "complexity"
>> factor.  SHDRIVER blew everybody else out of the water.  By far the most
>> complex piece of Macro-32 code in the entire system from a compiler 
>> analysis
>> point of view.
>
> . . . because SHDRIVER implemented their own weird homegrown notion of a
> threading package, that literally JMP's all over the place.
>
> On the other hand, the "port" to IA64 was trivial; there was a single
> Alpha-specific register used in a single location (handwaving here; I
> didn't work on the change myself), that was easy to conditionally compile
> for IA64.

You're welcome. :)

John