Attach Assembly
Volume Number: 2
Issue Number: 2
Column Tag: Fortran's World
Attaching Assembly Routines to Fortran
By Mark E. McBride, Miami University, Oxford, OH
This month's column will cover several diverse topics that have a common
underlying theme: increased access to the toolbox and an introduction to integrating
assembly language subroutines. However, before undertaking the new topics several
additionalng the new Microsoft version of MacFortran.
First, the Microsoft version of MacFortran is on the streets (2.1 of the Absoft
version). This is not entirely news since both the October and November issues used
the 2.1 version. However, for those of you who have not upgraded yet from 2.0, the
new version has different parameter equates for the subroutine toolbx. The 2.0 version
uses decimal numbers for the parameters and the new 2.1 version uses hex and the two
do not match. So, if you are trying to run a program written in the other version,
watch those parameter definitions in calls to the subroutine toolbx.
Second, the 2.1 version does make life somewhat easier in setting up the