From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26017 invoked by alias); 7 Apr 2005 23:16:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 25970 invoked by uid 48); 7 Apr 2005 23:16:20 -0000 Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20050407231620.25969.qmail@sourceware.org> From: "fasso at slac dot stanford dot edu" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20031117013315.13082.kargl@12-230-81-20.client.attbi.com> References: <20031117013315.13082.kargl@12-230-81-20.client.attbi.com> Reply-To: gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug fortran/13082] Function entries and entries with alternate returns not implemented X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00857.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Additional Comments From fasso at slac dot stanford dot edu 2005-04-07 23:16 ------- > Sigh. Yes, it would be wonderful if a fix magically appears out > of thin air. Given that there are more bugs than people actually > contributing patches, you have a few choice: (1) Pay someone to > fix the problem; (2) Get the source code, fix the problem, and > contribute the code back to GCC; (3) wait patiently until such > time that one of the few people working on gfortran has time to > fix the problem; (4) or complain and piss off the people who > owe you nothing. I do not understand your tone. There is a compiler, g77, which works and implements at least the Fortran 77 standard. I don't see any reason why it should be replaced in the distribution by a compiler which is not yet mature enough to implement the same standard. Your effort is appreciated, but wait to have something which works before removing the old compiler. A compiler which does not implement ENTRY is useless for most of the programs used in physics and engineering. Having that as the default Linux compiler will seriously affect my work and that of many colleagues. The attitude expressed in "piss off the people who owe you nothing" can be very bad for the future of Linux. I hope this is not the way user's feedback is generally received. Alberto Fasso`, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center -- What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |fasso at slac dot stanford | |dot edu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13082