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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <nospam-627B0E.22215818042013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 
> 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).

   Athough I'm not sure it met the ANSI Fortran-77 standard, the very
   first Fortran compiler we had on our 11/780 under VMS 1.x did have
   CHARACTER, block IF, ..., and all the other things we were looking
   for in the -77 standard.  I think DEC was calling it Fortran-IV-Plus.
   
   IIRC, Fortran-IV-Plus on RSX was pretty much the same, except with
   built-in funtions instead of %LOC and %VAL, and even the Fortran-77
   for RSX compiler didn't meet the standard with respect to using
   LEN on passed CHARACTER arguments.