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Re: gfortran vs ranlib
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Paul Thomas |
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Re: gfortran vs ranlib |
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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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- FYI: compiling octave with gcc4 (no go), Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/02/18
- gfortran vs ranlib (was: FYI: compiling octave with gcc4 (no go)), John W. Eaton, 2005/02/18
- Re: gfortran vs ranlib, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/02/18
- Re: gfortran vs ranlib, John W. Eaton, 2005/02/18
- Re: gfortran vs ranlib, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/02/18
- Re: gfortran vs ranlib, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/02/18
- Re: gfortran vs ranlib, Joe Koski, 2005/02/18
- Re: gfortran vs ranlib, John W. Eaton, 2005/02/18
- Re: gfortran vs ranlib, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/02/18
- Re: gfortran vs ranlib,
Paul Thomas <=
- Re: gfortran vs ranlib > to octave and gfortran lists, Paul Thomas, 2005/02/19
- octave with gcc4 done!, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/02/19
- octave with gcc4 done!, John W. Eaton, 2005/02/19
- Re: octave with gcc4 done!, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/02/19
- Re: octave with gcc4 done!, Dmitri A. Sergatskov, 2005/02/19
g++-4 vs. gperf (was: FYI: compiling octave with gcc4 (no go)), John W. Eaton, 2005/02/18