Re: Mac OS X, anyone?

[Charles Bouldin <charles.bouldin@nist.gov>]

I anticipate getting the absoft compiler "real soon now"...I wasn't 
aware they had released it to testers yet. This is the first report 
I've heard of anyone using fortran on MacOS X.

>Dear Feffers,
>
>Has anyone here tried Feff7 or Feff8 with Mac OS X? I heard
>recently from Paul Fons <fons@etl.go.jp> in Tsukuba that he was
>beta-testing the Absoft Fortran compiler for OS X, and had some
>difficulty with Feff810:
>
>   > I found that besjn was being passed values less than
>   > zero - e.g. there are floating point problems somewhere
>   > (complex quantities?).
>
>I'm concerned his may be due to the PAD library getting signs
>wrong.  I do know that Feff800 compiled and ran test cased with
>Absoft Fortran on Mac OS 9, but OS X is really quite different
>and this is a beta-compiler. That is, there are lots of
>possibilities for mistaken code generation and for previoulsy
>benign bugs to show up.
>
>I'm hoping Paul can get this licked soon, as he's eager to get
>Ifeffit working under OS X, and I know several people who would
>like to be able to use Feff/Ifeffit on a Mac environment.
>
>Anyway, anyone else tried OS X yet?
>
>Thanks,
>
>--Matt