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From: hjstein@bfr.co.il (Harvey J. Stein)
To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Cc: hjstein@bfr.co.il
Subject: g77 plans - support for automatic, .eq. for logicals, etc?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:46:00 -0000
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We're still using f2c because it's more friendly for our code.
Specifically:

1. The AUTOMATIC keyword for forcing allocation of specified variables
   on the stack instead of statically is not supported by g77.
2. G77 requires .EQV. & .NEQV. to be used for comparing logicals,
   whereas most other Fortran compilers accept the use of .EQ. and
   .NE. without comment.
3. G77 chokes on certain implicit do loops in DATA statements that
   other Fortran compilers accept without comment.
4. f2c + my f2c-stabs package works better under gdb (inside of emacs)
   for viewing variables than g77 with gdb.

I'm not sure if this is a complete list, but it's most of the reason
why we're unable to switch to g77 from f2c.

Are there any plans for addressing these points, or are we forced to
either keep using f2c?  BTW, because of compilation standards on other
platforms (not to mention the size of the changes required), we can't
solve 1 by compiling with the flag to make all variables automatic
except for those mentioned in a STATIC line.

-- 
Harvey J. Stein
BFM Financial Research
hjstein@bfr.co.il