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Re: [docs] Add link to gfortran wiki for binaries
- From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- Cc: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 16:22:54 -0700
- Subject: Re: [docs] Add link to gfortran wiki for binaries
- References: <200507271413.58736.paul@codesourcery.com> <Pine.BSF.4.62.0508010038580.24596@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <200508010011.41358.paul@codesourcery.com> <Pine.BSF.4.62.0508010115130.24596@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:16:19AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Paul Brook wrote:
> >> Do we really need a separate page to track gfortran binaries? I'd hope
> >> that we can get most (if not all) of those building GCC binary packages
> >> to include gfortran.
> > If and when that happens the wiki page will be obsolete, and we can
> > remove the link. The existence of these binaries is IMHO proof that
> > they are useful to someone.
>
> Fair enough. I'm just hoping gfortran will become very widely used and
> commonly built rather sooner than later (at which point we can revert the
> patch). :-)
>
When the Cray pointer patch is committed to gfortran,
I suspect we'll see a minor (major?) increase in
gfortran usage over g77. This has been a long requested
feature for g77, and AFAIK no other OSS fortran compiler
will have this capability.
--
Steve