Re: MS Fortran 4.0 and VS2005 MFC project

My company still uses MS Fortran 4.0 to compile our fortran into a lib
which is then linked into our MFC project. We currently use VS2003
and every gets along fine.

While converting to VS2005, I found that the MS fortran dll
(MSFORT40.dll) is causing the program to fail at startup. The
following message is displayed:

"The program '[2368] Test.exe: Native' has exited with code 255
(0xff)."

Further investigation revals that the failure occurs within initterm_e
(crtexe.c):

   #ifndef _SYSCRT
               if (_initterm_e( __xi_a, __xi_z ) != 0)
               {
                   return 255; // HERE IS WHERE WE GET KICKED OUT!
               }
   #else /* _SYSCRT */
               _initterm((_PVFV *)(void *)__xi_a, (_PVFV *)(void
*)__xi_z);
   #endif /* _SYSCRT */
   ...

If I force the debugger to skip the "return 255" and continue on, the
program will start but this is really bogus as initterm_e ended early
and not every thing may have been initialized.

In VS2003, a different inittem (crtexe.c) is called that does not
return anything:

           /*
            * Do runtime startup initializers.
            *
            * Note: the only possible entry we'll be executing here
is for
            * __lconv_init, pulled in from charmax.obj only if the
EXE was
            * compiled with -J. All other .CRT$XI* initializers are
only
            * run as part of the CRT itself, and so for the CRT DLL
model
            * are not found in the EXE. For that reason, we call
_initterm,
            * not _initterm_e, because __lconv_init will never return
failure,
            * and _initterm_e is not exported from the CRT DLL.
            *
            * Note further that, when using the CRT DLL, executing
the
            * .CRT$XI* initializers is only done for an EXE, not for
a DLL
            * using the CRT DLL. That is to make sure the -J setting
for
            * the EXE is not overriden by that of any DLL.
            */
           _initterm( __xi_a, __xi_z );
           ...

What is _SYSCRT? It is the "#ifndef _SYSCRT" that causes the
"initterm_e" function and not the "initterm" version to be called. I
think that if the "initterm" is called that does not return anything,
all will be good. Anyone have a similar experience or any suggestions
on how to get this to work? Thanks in advance.