Re: [PATCH, Fortran] gfortran.texi: Update "Standards" section.

[Janne Blomqvist <Janne dot Blomqvist at tkk dot fi>]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 04:29:45PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote:
> The attached patch updates the "Standards" section of the manual to say 
> that GNU Fortran "implements" (rather than "aims to implement") the 
> Fortran 95 standard, and notes that support of Fortran 95 means that 
> GFortran can compile virtually all Fortran 90 and Fortran 77 programs as 
> well.  In addition, it adds mention of the OpenMP standard and TR 15581 

Well, technically the TR is part of F2003 (AFAIK with extremely minor
changes), so perhaps that should go into the "implemented F2003
features" section (or whatever it was called). Then again, F95+TR
seems to be a fairly popular language both in terms of what other
compilers support and what people use, so perhaps we shouldn't hide it
away in the F2003 section?

> is there any reason to expect 
> that a -std=f77 switch is ever likely to happen?)

Personally, I think that with the demise of the last widely used
F77-only compiler, g77, there is little need anymore to ensure that
some code is F77-compliant for portability. Or shall we say, most
actively developed "F77" code is probably F77 + a bunch of compiler
specific extensions, which throws the portability argument out of the
window anyways.


-- 
Janne Blomqvist

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