fortran and apple rantings...

[Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>]

i've been playing with a macosX and i'm terribly disappointed that a
toplevel make doesn't even build out of FSF sources.  it seems some
magic bits are in the blessed apple sources.

as it stands, fsf gcc doesn't not build with apple's december compiler. 
it would be really nice if more stuff made it out of the apple sources
into the fsf tree.  a buildable compiler comes to mind ;-)

noconfdirs doesn't include bfd, gas, ld, etc etc, which are not
available on darwin.

in any case, i'm trying to bootstrap a sane compiler with the apple
sources, and apple's hacked up gcc complains at the following on the
apple sources (f/global.c):

    static const char *const ffeglobal_type_string_[] =
    {
      [999] "??",
      [999] "main program",
    
question-- what does the above do?  i've never seen string initializer's
written that way?  is the above legal?  k&r? ansi?

can we write it another way to assuage the apple compiler?
    
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Aldy Hernandez			E-mail: aldyh@redhat.com
Professional Gypsy
Red Hat, Inc.