Re: GCC 4.0 Status Report (2004-01-05)

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

> Nonetheless, I would like to bring (again) to your attention the fact that
> gfortran regressions (wrt to g77) are not considered in this count. I
> understand that a new frontend means that we are going to live with regressions
> for quite a while (as you correctly said here:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-12/msg00614.html), but I reckon that we should
> at least consider the most important problems in the new frontend (wrong-code
> and the such). Tobias kindly grouped all the gfortran regressions in a
> meta-bug, http://gcc.gnu.org/PR19292.

Our, i.e., the gfortran maintainers', assumption is that GNU/Linux 
distributors (and other whole-OS distributors who use the GNU 
compiler/linker/debugger toolchain) will offer access to the g77 binary 
via some method (e.g., by installing it in /opt/bin and the run-time 
library in /opt/lib).  In that way, people who need g77 because they're 
bitten by the incompatibilities in gfortran have a way out.

Note that this isn't really different from how other vendors have 
treated their "proven Fortran 77 compiler" from the 
new-and-dangerous-Fortran-90 compiler.  For some, the Fortran 77 
compiler was a separate binary for a *decade*.  We don't really have to 
beat them in this regard ....

Cheers,

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