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Re: gfortran vs ranlib


From: Paul Thomas
Subject: Re: gfortran vs ranlib
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 07:16:55 +0100

Thank you for posting the bug, Dmitri. IMHO, even if repeat posting of bugs is discouraged, it does act as a kind of voting process to keep developers directed towards bugs that affect end users.

Lest anybody should wonder, after following this thread, why g77 will be replaced by gfortran in gcc-4.0 and start flooding the octave pages with complaints, I should say that there are, at least, two reasons:

1) The g77 Project Leader, James Craig Bailey, stepped down (http://world.std.com/~burley/g77-why.html) and nobody stepped into his shoes. 2) gcc-4.0 represents a major restructuring of the gcc backend that would necessitate a substantial rewrite of g77, which nobody was prepared to do.

G95 was already on the go and gfortran is its gcc branch ( a bit of a misnomer, really - acorn might be more appropriate since they will never meet again.).

Gfortran is desperately short of developers with sufficent expertise to help with the compiler proper; hence the slowness in dealing with the ENTRY problem. Most people who are helping out are involved in the runtime library. There, the g77 compatability issues are mainly associated with I/O.

Paul T



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