Bug 17611

Summary: f77 man page needs updated
Product: Base System Reporter: Randall Hopper <aa8vb>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: aa8vb
Priority: Normal    
Version: 3.4-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Randall Hopper 2000-03-27 02:50:01 UTC 
	f77(1) says "From the user side of view this FORTRAN to C
	translation is completely transparent - f77 looks like a
	traditional FORTRAN compiler."

        However, pop this in a file:

                SUBROUTINE XMDF2T(APARM)
                IMPLICIT DOUBLE PRECISION(A)
                INTEGER  INT1
                DATA FR/0D0/
                INTEGER  INT2
          99998 END

        and compile using "f77 -c tst.f":

        Error on line 5 of tst.f: Statement order error: declaration after DATA

        f77 compilers will eat this, but f2c will not.  This is briefly
        mentioned in f2c.ps.

Fix: 

Please update man page with caveats of use resulting from using f2c
	over a FORTRAN compiler.  Thanks.

        Note: f77 and f2c from ports generates the same behavior, so the
        f77 port man page should probably be updated as well.
How-To-Repeat: 
	See above.

        This is causing me major grief trying to cook a FreeBSD port for
        the FeatFlow CFD package (www.featflow.de).  I realize f2c isn't
        under our control.  Therefore the man page should at least be
        updated with caveats.
Comment 1 Jens Schweikhardt freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-06-17 14:00:30 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

There's no f77(1) man page on -current, it's a link to 
g77(1). g77(1) in turn doesn't display the quoted paragraph. 
I also couldn't find that paragraph in the info docs. 
Please contact the GNU folks if this is still an issue.