Questions about fortran-related gcc upgrade

Questions about fortran-related gcc upgrade

[Marc Levrier]

Hello,
(Your GCC web page is really good and efficient, BTW)
I'm reading (and experiencing) that gcc/fortran does not
support STRUCTURE, RECORD and MAP statements. Do you plan
to handle these in a near future ? In case not, what would
you advise ? I need to know because I am porting a cutomer's
app which makes a significant use of each of these statements.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: Questions about fortran-related gcc upgrade

[Toon Moene]

Marc Levrier wrote:

> (Your GCC web page is really good and efficient, BTW)
> I'm reading (and experiencing) that gcc/fortran does not
> support STRUCTURE, RECORD and MAP statements. Do you plan
> to handle these in a near future ? In case not, what would
> you advise ? I need to know because I am porting a cutomer's
> app which makes a significant use of each of these statements.

I have to be the messenger of bad news: The chance that STRUCTURE,
RECORD and MAP will be supported by g77 is close to nil.

You're better off choosing one of the closed-source (and non-gratis)
Fortran offerings.  You don't write which OS your porting to, but for
Linux there are quite a few choices in compilers.

Hope this helps,

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