From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6308 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2004 09:59:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 6229 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 09:59:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com) (193.131.176.58) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Nov 2004 09:59:24 -0000 Received: from pc960.cambridge.arm.com (pc960.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.205.4]) by cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iAT9snmb017742; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:54:49 GMT Received: from pc960.cambridge.arm.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pc960.cambridge.arm.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id iAT9thrg001728; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:55:43 GMT Received: (from rearnsha@localhost) by pc960.cambridge.arm.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id iAT9tgOQ001726; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:55:42 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: pc960.cambridge.arm.com: rearnsha set sender to rearnsha@gcc.gnu.org using -f Subject: Re: Mainline in regression-fix mode after Thanksgiving From: Richard Earnshaw To: Mark Mitchell Cc: Toon Moene , gcc@gcc.gnu.org In-Reply-To: <41AAA2CD.3020003@codesourcery.com> References: <200411230026.iAN0QqeO005220@sirius.codesourcery.com> <41A9B4D2.5010302@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> <41AAA2CD.3020003@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: GNU Message-Id: <1101722142.1585.4.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:30:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg01113.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 04:17, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Toon Moene wrote: > > Mark Mitchell wrote: > > > >> I realize that people are agressively using the compiler, and that > >> bugs reported is partially a function of the amount of use. I also > >> understand that with all the changes we've got in this release, there > >> are bound to be some problems. However, I think that we've got to > >> take steps to get things in hand. > > > > > > Note that the Fortran list (both fortran and libfortran) contain > > "regressions" of gfortran vs. g77. Because these are completely > > separate front ends, these are not really regressions, but extensions to > > Fortran 77 that g77 supports that gfortran does not (yet). > > > > As we assume that distributors will provide both gfortran and (in a > > separate directory) g77, these "regressions" do not really count. > > That's very useful information; thank you. Whilst on the issue of g77 vs g95. I still regard the fact that you have to build and install (in a system directory) a non-standard build of a non-standard library (gmp with mpf) as a major build bug. This makes it impossible for folks who don't have root access on their machines to build and install the fortran compiler unless they are prepared to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or whatever) every time they want to run the resulting compiler. R.