From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Tue Aug  5 01:20:18 1997
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 17:20:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: R-alpha: f2c compatibility
In-Reply-To: <199708042234.KAA14790@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970804171330.10278A-100000@chekov>

On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Ross Ihaka wrote:
> I think that there are two problems here.
> 
>  1. Providing support for functionality in the R core (all C code).
> 
>  2. Supporting code in external libraries (mainly f77).
> 
> I think it might be useful to keep these problems separate.
> 

I agree. I don't think it is necessarily a good idea for R to contain all
of libf2c that we might want to use.  My question was much simpler: 

Should we assume in creating libraries with C translations of FORTRAN that
ld -lf2c works, or should we explicitly include the C source for functions
that we call (as R does with pow_dd and pow_di)?


	-thomas


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R-alpha: f2c compatibility
Thomas Lumley