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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.
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. 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, Stephan Wefing of Heidelberg University, 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. Bob Wells of Oxford University and Gunnar
Duus of Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt 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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