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  1. e745200

    slashed arguments in legacy fortran

    I finally found the desired manual. At page http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/ I found this reference : IBM System 360 and System 370 FORTRAN IV Language, 1974. which can be found here : http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/GC28-6515-10-FORTRAN-IV-Language.pdf Starting at...
  2. e745200

    slashed arguments in legacy fortran

    I was wrong in my post above, saying that modern compilers tolerate slashed dummy arguments. In did not noticed that in the environment I am working in, a pre-processing step removes those slashes for the currently used compilers, perhaps leaving them in place when using some specific (old)...
  3. e745200

    slashed arguments in legacy fortran

    I forgot to answer your first request. Just for the sake of completeness: the code I am working on has dated comments inside starting from the mid '70s ! For sure it has been used with all the generations of compilers, from several manufacturers and on different machines since then ! And just...
  4. e745200

    slashed arguments in legacy fortran

    Thanks a lot xwb, for your prompt and precise answer ! Telling the truth, I was told it might have been something related to the way arguments are passed to the called routine, but I was looking for an ultimate reference as the one you gave me. Thanks again. The strange thing is that modern...
  5. e745200

    slashed arguments in legacy fortran

    Dealing with legacy Fortran code, I found slashed arguments in subroutines/functions definitions and references. Does anyone remember what is this slashing for ? I did not find anything about it in any manual I read. Example SUBROUTINE(A,/B/,C) ... END SUBROUTINE Thanks !

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