Re: NCAR Graphics, Mac OS 10.4 and XLF

From: Daniel Packman (pack AT ucar.edu)
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 15:03:47 MDT

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    On May 4, 2005, at 2:15 PM, Dave Kennison wrote:

    >
    > Dan,
    >
    > What we have done for many years is to declare EXTERNAL the names of
    > the BLOCK DATA routines that initialize the variables in the labeled
    > common blocks we're using, causing them to be loaded from whatever
    > library they have been placed in and thus performing the desired
    > initializations. It is this technique that does not work with this
    > particular compiler/loader combination.
    >
    > You seem to be saying that you have declared EXTERNAL the names of
    > the common blocks themselves. Is that right?

    No, I was referring to the mechanism you mentioned.
    And I just verified for my own sake that this does not work
    for xlf 8.1 on macos but works fine for xlf 7.1 on aix 5.1.

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