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Re: 980601: pgf77 support for cfortran.h 4.1

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  • Subject: Re: 980601: pgf77 support for cfortran.h 4.1
  • Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 12:27:08 -0600
George,

> To: address@hidden
> cc: address@hidden
> From: George Lai <address@hidden>
> Subject: pgf77 support for cfortran.h 4.1
> Organization: NASA/GSFC
> Keywords: 199806011614.KAA21199

In the above message, you wrote:

>   In an effort to compile netCDF (which uses cfortran.h for the
> C/C++, fortran interfacing) with Portland Group's f77 compiler
> on Linux, I added the 'pgiFortran' macro into cfortran.h (version 
> 4.1) and netCDF (version 3.4) seems to work fine.  I have been 
> testing it with our model for about one month now. I'll include 
> my modified version below. I am wondering if you can include the
> support of pgf77 into you package (after you double check my 
> modifications) so that I don't need to port again for future
> version?
> 
>   I should also mention that in the official netCDF 3.4, it uses
> cfortran.h 3.9. I upgraded it to cfortran.h 4.1 first (I was 
> hoping that the pgf77 support was already there), and modified
> on 4.1.
> 
>   Information about pgf77 can be found at http://www.pgroup.com.
> I knew quite a few users of pgf77 in scientific computing who
> also need netCDF library. Your help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> -George

Thanks.  I updated our CFORTRAN to 4.1 and added your modifications.
They'll be in the next netCDF release.

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>