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ftnchek was designed by Dr. Robert Moniot, professor at Fordham University.
During the academic year of 1988-1989, Michael Myers and Lucia Spagnuolo
developed the program to perform the variable usage checks. During the
following year it was augmented by Lois Bigbie to check subprogram arguments
and COMMON block declarations. Brian Downing assisted with the implementation
of the INCLUDE statement. John Quinn wrote the common block usage checks.
Heba Elsayed wrote the label table printout and label usage checks. Nelson
H. F. Beebe of the University of Utah added most of the new code to implement
the -makedcls feature and wrote the dcl2inc script. The -reference feature
was contributed by Gerome Emmanuel, Ecole des mines, U. Nancy (slightly
modified). The -vcg option was contributed by Dr. Philip Rubini (p.rubini@cranfield.ac.uk).
The support for Cray pointer syntax was provided by John Dannenhoffer
of United Technologies Research Center. John C. Bollinger of Indiana University
added the parser syntax for the SELECT CASE construct. Additional features
will be added as time permits. As of Version 2.5, the name was changed from
forchek to ftnchek , to avoid confusion with a similar program named
forcheck , developed earlier at Leiden University.
We would like to thank
John Amor of the University of British Columbia, Reg Clemens of the Air
Force Phillips Lab in Albuquerque, Markus Draxler of the University of
Stuttgart, Victor Eijkhout of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville,
Greg Flint of Purdue University, Daniel P. Giesy of NASA Langley Research
Center, Fritz Keinert of Iowa State University, Judah Milgram of the University
of Maryland College Park, Hugh Nicholas of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing
Center, Dan Severance of Yale University, Phil Sterne of Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, Larry Weissman of the University of Washington, Warren
J. Wiscombe of NASA Goddard, and Nelson H. F. Beebe of the University of
Utah, for pointing out bugs and suggesting some improvements. and Gunnar
Duus of Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt, Clive Page of the University
of Leicester, Stephan Wefing of Heidelberg University, and Bob Wells of
Oxford University were extremely helpful as alpha testers. We also thank
Jack Dongarra for putting ftnchek into the netlib library of publicly
available software.
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