Re: Fortran calls, was PL/I code

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From	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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(snip, I wrote)
> For the PDP-10/TOPS-10 Fortran, return addresses went on the stack,
> but local variables were still static, as usual for Fortran IV.

> [That must be the new PDP-10 compiler.  The old compiler, which looked
> a whole lot like OS/360 Fortran G, used JSA/JRA for subroutine calls,
> which saved the return address register in the first word of the
> subroutine. -John]

I remembered the PDP-8 using the "store the return address in the
first word" method, but, yes, there was an earlier PDP-10 compiler.
The one I used was, I believe, called Fortran-10 and the older one
Fortran-40. (I am less sure about the latter, as I don't remember ever
using it.)

I did write some Fortran callable Macro-10 programs.

-- glen
[Yup, that's the one I used. -John]

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