From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT acp3bf DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: MPI lib with g77
Date: 8 Feb 2000 11:49:42 GMT
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Fan Zhang <fanzhang AT eecg DOT toronto DOT edu> wrote:
> Hi,

> I'm trying to compile a bunch of Fortran programs using MPI with g77.

Care telling what that 'MPI' is?

> But it turns out that after g77 compiled, the MPI functions in the
> object files change it's name to lower case. 

They don't exactly "change" to lower case, they are lower case all the
time.  FORTRAN 77, the language compiled by g77, is 100%
case-insensitive --- it's the one where you can write 'r Et   U      r  N'
and get the exact same effect as if you'd typed 'return' or 'RETURN'.  

g77 follows Unix traditions, converting everything to lowercase first
thing in the morning. Function names like MPI_something simply cannot
happen, at object file level, for a Fortran 77 compiler.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.