On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Alasdair Allan wrote:
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/
>
> *nod*
>
> > the gfortran home page, that seems to be what we'll get along with GCC
> > when 3.5(?) rolls out (I cannot work out the relationship between these
> > two projects, other than gfortran is a fork of g95 from about 18 months
> > ago, I presume they are still related). G77 and GCC compatibility is a
> > stated aim of the project, so fingers crossed we will be OK, but I don't
> > see any mention of %VAL, just Cray pointers.
>
> Unfortunately, my (admittedly 3rd hand) information is that gfortran
> doesn't currently work, and there isn't anyone working seriously to get it
> to a usable state. This could, of course, be totally wrong...
>
Isn't that a bit of a disaster sinec the GCC guys are assuming that it
will be replacing the now broken g77?
Maybe the scientific community should band together and fix this. Most
people won't realise. Maybe this is something for an ADASS BOF?
--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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