Re: your mail

From: Canguo Li (licg@hpws7.ihep.ac.cn)
Date: Tue Dec 08 1998 - 06:54:32 MET 

Dear Valery:
   Thank you for telling me the trick(again). I guess this trick'll be
helpful to some other novice.

 Regards

--Canguo

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Valery Fine wrote:

> On  5 Dec 98 at 11:54, Canguo Li wrote:
> 
> > Date:          Sat, 5 Dec 1998 11:54:50 +0800 (EAT)
> > From:          Canguo Li <licg@hpws7.ihep.ac.cn>
> > To:            fine@mail.cern.ch
> > Cc:            roottalk@hpsalo.cern.ch
> > Subject:       Re: your mail
> 
> >    On HP, I compiled my Geant3.21 application(written in Fortran)
> >    without
> > adding-post-pending-underscore, then I call CernLib and Geant3
> > subroutines by explicitly adding the postpending underscores. I
> > think this makes my application's more readable and robust. However,
> > when I tried to port this application to RedHat Linux on PC, where
> > the fortran compilers are fort77 and g77, I couldn't find the option
> > to compile without adding postpending underscore(which should have
> > been the default for any fortran compiler?). 
> > 
> >  Do you or any Rooter happen to know the trick? Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
>  It seems to me very this kind of the trick I mentioned, namely via 
> that small F77_NAME macro we define
> 
> #define ffread_ F77_NAME(ffread,FFREAD)
> 
> This macro for the different platforms does supply:
> 
>    1. ffread_ as ffread_
>    2. ffread_ as ffread
>    3. ffread_ as FFREAD
> 
>   but within your source you are still using your "more readable 
> and robust" form, namely 
> 
>                    ffread_( . . . )
> 
>  Actually at this place you have no deal with any compiler just with 
> C/C++ pre-processing only.
> 
>                                  Valery
> 
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