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   Thomas Koenig to Lynn McGuire   
   Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa   
   26 Oct 24 21:30:45   
   
   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Lynn McGuire  schrieb:   
      
   > First, I include all of my 300+ common blocks as 200 files.  I converted   
   > those separately and cleaned them up so that the static variables and   
   > defines are easy to peruse and understand.  I delete all of the local   
   > common block conversions by f2c in the subroutines and change them back   
   > to include files.  An easy cleanup that I have to do 5,000 times (4,000   
   > to go now plus the 100+ subroutines that we have modified for customers   
   > since I started the conversion project two years ago).   
      
   Sounds like a lot of work...   
      
   >   
   > I also removed the parameter adjustments from my copy of f2c.  It is a   
   > little tricky but as you say, they are not legal code in C++.   
      
   Very good, I think you're set then.   
      
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