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Re: Will tree-ssa be GCC 3.5?
Jim Wilson wrote:
That is also why I mentioned maintaining gcc3 and gcc4 in parallel. It
isn't a tragedy if a front end is missing from gcc4 if we are still
supporting it in gcc3.
Indeed, it would make *my* life much easier to have f77 in gcc3 and f95
in gcc4.
Strictly speaking, a Fortran 90/95 compiler *is* a Fortran 77 compiler,
but things are not that easy in practice. g77 supports a larger
language than Fortran 77 and not all of its extensions are in Fortran
90/95. This means that the initial release of gfortran won't compile
all of the language that g77 compiles, even though that isn't a "bug",
per se.
Having two physically different compilers residing in different
distributions makes this more obvious to the Fortran public.
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