Rosepack Document 3: Guidelines for Writing Semi-Portable Fortran / Neil Kaden, Virginia Klema.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaden, Neil.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Klema, Virginia.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w0130.

NBER working paper series no. w0130

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical statistics.

Machine theory--Mathematical models.

Machine theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Rosepack Document 3

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1976.

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1976.

Summary:

Transferring Fortran subroutines from one manufacturer' s machine to another, or from one operating system to another, puts certain constraints on the construction of the Fortran statements that are used in the subroutines. The reliable performance of mathematical software should be unaffected by the host environment in which the software is used or by the compiler from which the cod eis generated. In short, the reliable performance of the algorithm is to be independent of the computing environment in which it is run. The subroutines of ROSEPACK (Robust Statistics Estimation Package) are Fortran IV source code designed to be semi-portable where semi-portable is defined to mean transportable with minimum change. *This paper described the guidelines by which ROSEPACK subroutines were written.

Notes:

Print version record

March 1976.