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rahen | 3 months ago

Author here. They call it a FORTRAN IV compiler but it uses some F66 extensions, such as proper types and functions, although it lacks some of the nicer constructs of F66 like If/Then/Else, which would have been handy.

Regarding floating point, I realized the code actually works fine without an FPU, so I assume it uses soft-float. There's no switch to enable the FP11 opcodes, maybe that was in their F77 compiler.

It's indeed rough and spartan, but using a 64KB optimizing compiler requiring just 8KB of memory was a refreshing change for me.

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