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Re: gfortran links to bug lists
- From: Philippe Schaffnit <P dot Schaffnit at access dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- To: Paul Thomas <paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr>
- Cc: Fortran List <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:46:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: gfortran links to bug lists
- Organization: Access e.V.
- References: <469E793B.4010004@wanadoo.fr>
Hi!
Stupid remark from a bystander (as in: feel free to ignore...).
Why don't you create a 'Meta-Bug', as has been done in several other
instances: it should ensure that it doesn't fall through the cracks...
Philippe
Paul Thomas wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> When I made the links to specific categories of bugs on the gfortran
> wiki, I was trying to point out that we are still a ways from having a
> fully satisfactory F95 compiler - admittedly, the bugs are getting to be
> increasingly obscure but our aim should surely be to make as good an F95
> compiler as we can before moving on to F2003.
>
> I find it a bit concerning that the focus has shifted so far to F2003
> that I have had to resurrect my own Bugzilla lists. Is this really what
> we want to be doing right now? If so, OK, I'll plough my own furrow but
> I'd rather that we all pulled together.
>
> I am as keen as the next to get serious F2003 features into gfortran.
> In fact, I have ideas about how to proceed on many of them, and have
> even done some fairly serious experiments on them - eg. the ABSTRACT
> INTERFACE and PROCEDURE patch. However, I do think that we should walk
> before we run. I am struck that Tobi Schlueter and I were talking
> character bugs two years ago and that I am still struggling, after all
> this time, with a very big character patch.
>
> I was very disappointed at the complete lack of interest in revamping
> the parser to carry out some fairly fundamental inprovements to
> gfortran. Whilst we are doing OKish on Polyhedron execution tests, we
> are still not scoring very well on diagnostics and module usage is
> woefully slow. (Try to get your heads around F2003 classes without
> sorting this out.)
>
> What do you all think? Am I wasting my energy or are others also
> committed to a systematic development of gfortran?
>
> Yours
>
> Paul