f2c
A simple and foolproof way to write g77-callable C routines--e.g. to
interface with an existing library--is to write a file (named, for
example, `fred.f') of dummy Fortran
skeletons comprising just the declaration of the routine(s) and dummy
arguments plus `END' statements.
Then run f2c on file `fred.f' to produce `fred.c'
into which you can edit
useful code, confident the calling sequence is correct, at least.
(There are some errors otherwise commonly made in generating C
interfaces with f2c conventions,
such as not using doublereal
as the return type of a REAL FUNCTION.)
f2c also can help with calling Fortran from C, using its
`-P' option to generate C prototypes appropriate for calling the
Fortran.(1)
If the Fortran code containing any
routines to be called from C is in file `joe.f', use the command
f2c -P joe.f to generate the file `joe.P' containing
prototype information.
#include this in the C which has to call
the Fortran routines to make sure you get it right.
See section Arrays (DIMENSION), for information on the differences
between the way Fortran (including compilers like g77) and
C handle arrays.
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