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Advantages Over f2c
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   Without `f2c', `g77' would have taken much longer to do and probably
not been as good for quite a while.  Sometimes people who notice how
much `g77' depends on, and documents encouragement to use, `f2c' ask
why `g77' was created if `f2c' already existed.

   This section gives some basic answers to these questions, though it
is not intended to be comprehensive.

Language Extensions

Features used by Fortran code.

Diagnostic Abilities

Abilities to spot problems early.

Compiler Options

Features helpful to accommodate legacy code, etc.

Compiler Speed

Speed of the compilation process.

Program Speed

Speed of the generated, optimized code.

Ease of Debugging

Debugging ease-of-use at the source level.

Character and Hollerith Constants

A byte saved is a byte earned.