ADIFOR Automatic Differentiation

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I have an application for ADIFOR. I know F77 is obsolete, but I have a large program that is
pure F77 (it can be compiled by f2c) and ADIFOR seems like it would be very useful for me. I did read the user guide and didn’t see any roadblocks.

Argonne National Laboratory advertises the ADIFOR automatic differentiation package on its
website ( ADIFOR: Automatic Differentiation of Fortran Codes ) and asks potential users to
write to Paul Hovland (hovland@mcs.anl.gov) or Alan Carle (carle@rice.edu) but I have received no response from either. Another page at ANL
(ADIFOR: Automatic Differentiation of Fortran 77 | Argonne National Laboratory ) gives 2
phone numbers but neither is in service. A webpage at Rice University
(ADIFOR 2.0 NOW AVAILABLE ) adds another email address
(bischof@mcs.anl.gov ), also no response there. These pages are 30 years old, so no real
surprise.

Any ideas?

Daniel Feenberg
NBER

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Perhaps use the general addresses that are mentioned on that page.

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No reply from partners@anl.gov either. I left a phone message at the 800 number, maybe there will be a reply.

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Very few search results, I am afraid, but perhaps http://www.autodiff.org can help?

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The last time I checked on ADIFOR, it was for educational use only. I would suggest the FortranCalculus compiler.