From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29197 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2004 15:28:47 -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 29187 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2004 15:28:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ams005.ftl.affinity.com) (216.219.253.151) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2004 15:28:46 -0000 Received: from coyotegulch.com ([4.4.125.218]) by ams.ftl.affinity.com with ESMTP id <3558430-21219>; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:28:21 -0500 Message-ID: <4009548E.1000403@coyotegulch.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 15:28:00 -0000 From: Scott Robert Ladd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Brook CC: gcc mailing list Subject: Re: [RFC] Contributing tree-ssa to mainline References: <1074298740.3147.79.camel@frodo.toronto.redhat.com> <400946FC.7050803@coyotegulch.com> <200401171457.29989.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200401171457.29989.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg01066.txt.bz2 Paul Brook wrote: > On Saturday 17 January 2004 2:30 pm, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: >>We would have a working Fortran 95 compiler. > > I'd be careful making claims like this:) Oh, okay, just shoot me for being optimistic... :) > There is a good chance it will not be a complete replcement for g77 in time > for gcc 3.5. Hopefully it will be usable as a f95 compiler, but it will most > likley still have rough edges. On the other hand, can't people who need g77 simply stay with 3.4 and earlier? One problem with the g77 is that lots of people use it, but none of them seem very active on these lists. The Ada folk have spoken well; who will advocate on behalf of g77's users? > It is pretty much conformant to gcc coding standards. AFAIK the only thing > we're missing is a full description of the gfortran specific compiler > options. Assuming some sanity and financial stability in my life -- a big assumption -- I'll look into some of the documentation issues. > g77 will probably never be made to work with tree-ssa. IMHO such effort would > be better directed towards making gfortran work properly. I agree. -- Scott Robert Ladd Coyote Gulch Productions (http://www.coyotegulch.com) Software Invention for High-Performance Computing