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Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct.

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On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:21:51 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
>> On 20.10.2025 20:36, rbowman wrote:
> [...]
>>> I have converted F77 code from NOAA's public domain stuff to C.
>>> 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2c
>>> 
>>> The utility does indeed convert Fortran 77 to C code that will compile
>>> but it is barely human readable and nothing you would want to
>>> maintain.
>>
>> If the transformation is done correctly there's no reason to inspect
>> the details of the generated "C" code, or is it?
> 
> Unless the goal is to continue maintenance of the code in C.
> 
> A plausible scenario is that you have a body of code in Fortran that you
> want to continue maintaining, but it's easier to find C programmers than
> Fortran programmers.  (I don't know whether that's the case here.)
> 
> [...]

Definitely. I think I might have been the only person in the company that 
had ever used Fortran. The codebase was all C.  Even competent C 
programmers were hard to find. The local university used Java as their 
didactic language. Turning a Java programmer loose on C is very dangerous. 
Conversely we had one legacy standalone Java application. If I had to 
modify it I approached it very gingerly.

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Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-08 06:35 +0000
  Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. pozz <pozzugno@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 09:09 +0200
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2025-10-08 12:01 +0000
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-08 15:23 +0000
      Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-08 19:04 +0300
        Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-08 20:05 +0000
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-08 18:52 +0300
  Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 11:09 +0200
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 11:23 +0200
      Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-08 12:53 +0300
        Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 12:09 +0200
          Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-08 15:59 +0200
            Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 12:29 -0500
              Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-08 21:04 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 22:49 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-10 01:13 +0100
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-10 01:54 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 19:43 -0700
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-10 11:25 +0100
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 22:50 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 20:59 -0700
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-10 01:27 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-10-10 12:06 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-10-10 17:28 +0300
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-10-10 17:47 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-10 16:32 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-11 00:02 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-13 06:20 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-10 15:01 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-10 23:45 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-14 06:29 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-14 20:13 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-15 11:26 +0100
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-15 13:00 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-10-17 22:07 +0100
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-17 17:44 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-20 10:02 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-20 04:42 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-21 03:40 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-16 06:45 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-16 06:37 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-16 04:43 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-20 09:58 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-20 18:36 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-20 16:44 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-21 01:33 +0000
                Language-design, tradeoffs (was Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct.) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-21 04:19 +0200
                Re: Language-design, tradeoffs (was Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct.) BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-21 04:27 -0500
                Re: Language-design, tradeoffs (was Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct.) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-22 02:30 +0200
                Re: Language-design, tradeoffs (was Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct.) BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-22 02:10 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-21 03:51 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-10-20 19:21 -0700
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-21 04:53 +0200
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-21 18:21 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-21 13:42 -0500
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-10-21 06:17 -0400
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-21 18:41 +0000
                Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-21 18:12 +0000
            Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 19:36 +0200
              Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-10-08 19:51 +0200
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-08 15:29 +0000
  Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 11:33 -0500
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 14:57 -0700
      Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-09 01:39 +0000
        Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 22:25 -0500
          Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-10-09 19:50 -0700
            Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-10-10 04:20 +0000
  Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 13:35 -0700
    Re: Nice way of allocating flexible struct. "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2025-10-08 13:36 -0700

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