It's been a while since I have dealt with ratfor, so you are probably 
correct. I hate delay slots. It makes code difficult to read. Had to deal 
with that on HP-UX.

On 7 Apr 2000, at 9:41, Farrell Woods wrote:

> Coming off the 68K in the same time period (and, same employer - wink)
> as Michael, I was impressed at the concept of actually executing the
> instruction *after* a return (i.e. branch delay slot.)

> Hmm, I thought ratfor was merely a preprocessor.  From its original
> man page, way long ago, it was described as having the ability to
> "...turn a rational dialect of FORTRAN into ordinary, irrational
> FORTRAN..." :-)

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