[Info-vax] GCC for VMS, was: Re: fortran compiler roadmap?

[Paul Sture]

In article <ataimhFlivgU2 at mid.individual.net>,
 bill at server1.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> In article <nospam-AC92AF.16315818042013 at news.chingola.ch>,
> 	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> > In article 
> > <craigberry-0E8D50.22030917042013 at news.eternal-september.org>,
> >  "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at mac.com.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> >> While VAX Fortran was my first computer language, I haven't done any 
> >> Fortran in twenty years and I don't have a very good sense of what role 
> >> the library plays in the language.  Given that SYS$SHARE:DEC$FORRTL.EXE 
> >> is about one tenth the size of SYS$SHARE:DECC$SHR.EXE, I'm guessing 
> >> it's not quite as big a deal as the C run-time.  But still, getting a 
> >> "foreign" Fortran compiler fully functional on VMS would likely require 
> >> various kinds of glue for exit handlers, threads, and such, and, if you 
> >> want to use native libraries, rights to use SYS$LIBRARY:FORSYSDEF.TLB 
> >> or an independently-developed equivalent.
> > 
> > Going back to the last time I used VAX Fortran we made extensive use of 
> > third party libraries and runtime processes.  
> 
> NAGLIB, by any chance?

No.  This stuff came from the heritage of the first compiler available 
for the VAX 11/780 being Fortran IV.  Among a heap of other stuff there 
was a bunch of string handling routines which weren't necessary once 
Fortran 77 arrived (and for new programs I used that).
 
> >                                               I believe those did make 
> > it to Alpha, but don't know whether they made it to Itanium.  Without 
> > those a complete rewrite of the applications would be the only way 
> > forwards.
> 
> Is NAGLIB still around?  We always got it in source (Fortran) so I
> guess it could be used on any system with a functional Fortran Compiler.

Is this it?

http://www.nag.com/intro/mkt77.asp

-- 
Paul Sture