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Louis Krupp to Lynn McGuire

Re: converting a 700,000+ line Fortran 7

15 Apr 25 23:19:11

   XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: lkrupp@invalid.pssw.com.invalid   
      
   On 4/15/2025 5:28 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   > On 4/15/2025 6:14 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:50:32 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Got rid of a few nasty bugs like:   
   >>>   
   >>>         iword = 6Habcdef   
   >>   
   >> Surely whether that’s a bug or not would depend on the type of   
   >> “iword” ...   
   >   
   > iword is a implicit 4 byte integer capable of storing 4 characters.   
   >   
   Out of curiosity, what system was this originally written for?   
      
   Louis   
      
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