Re: octave & octave-forge install instructions for Mac OS X 10.4.x

[Marius Schamschula]

Joe,

I saw g95.sf.net mentioned on hpc.sf.net. However the note "Some 
reports suggest that this alternate g95 is a bit ahead in the 
implementation of F95 features, but produces poorly optimized 
executables." discouraged me from trying this compiler.

On Jul 1, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Joe Koski wrote:

> Although it is not official gcc material, g95 
> (http://g95.sourceforge.net/)
> has been very reliable for me. When g77 seg-faulted on a computational 
> fluid
> dynamics code that we change often, I tried g95, and it worked, and 
> enabled
> me to deliver some results on time. So far, even though it claims to be
> beta, g95 has performed reliably for me, and has compiled the 
> half-dozen old
> Fortran 77 legacy code that I threw at it. They update the g95 Mac 
> binaries
> often, unlike gfortran. It uses the same back end as gfortran. It may 
> be
> worth a try.
>
> Joe
Marius
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