9 Apr
2026
9 Apr
'26
3:51 p.m.
IIRC The FORTRAN runtime is common to all linked programs and I could
easily envision it trying to set something up at startup. I’d have to ask
Dr. Fortran to be sure (whom I’ll be seeing tomorrow if you want me to ask
- while I was never part of TLG, my original Intel office was in back in
ZK02, with them - they never moved when DEC sold them to HP, then Intel -
so I’ve eaten lunch with them for about 20 years now, and the Friday TLG
lunch lives on even after we all have retired).
Clem
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> wrote:
/me slaps forehead
The 11/70's FP board set is flaky, and it has been removed pending
repair. I had forgotten about that. But the "hello world" program
shouldn't use any FP instructions..?
I don't think I can get over to LSSM today, but I will be working
there tomorrow.
-Dave
On 4/8/26 19:59, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Error 2, by the way is usually for one of three
reasons:
1. Task failed at the SVTK$S call (not able to install trap catching for
various traps)
2. Task uses FP instructions, but task was build without /FP, or system
lacks FP hardware support.
3. FCS initialization failure.
Most likely problem would be #2.
Johnny
On 2026-04-08 22:23, Dave McGuire wrote:
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Hey folks, before I start digging into this, I figured I'd ask
here. A simple "hello world" program in F77 on RSX-11M-PLUS fails to
start thusly:
$ run hello
TT3 -- Exiting due to ERROR 2
Task initialization failure
I was trying to move a larger FORTRAN program to this system (the
11/70 at LSSM) and it was dying with this message, so I wrote a
quickie test case to narrow it down. It's just a write to unit 5:
WRITE(5,10)
10 FORMAT(' Hello World!')
END
...compiled with "FORTRAN HELLO", and linked with:
L HELLO,LB:[1,1]F77FCS/LIB
No warnings or errors. It runs fine on my 11/83 at home with a
very similar config. Before I dig in, can anyone quickly point me to
what I'm missing?
Thanks,
-Dave