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Re: Will people install gfortran in 4.0?
- From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- To: Tobias Schl?ter <tobias dot schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, GCC Fortran mailing list <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:43:43 -0800
- Subject: Re: Will people install gfortran in 4.0?
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0502201555280.6246@rana.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <421A1BEF.5050507@physik.uni-muenchen.de>
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 06:35:43PM +0100, Tobias Schl?ter wrote:
> (added fortran@gcc.gnu.org to the CC list, as that is the appropriate list for
> this dicussion)
>
> Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > To add a concrete example, unlike g77 in earlier versions of GCC, gfortran
> > is not and will not be part of the standard gcc40 port in FreeBSD.
>
> Do you have a pointer to where this decision is explained?
>
Why? I build gfortran routinely of both i386-*-freebsd and
amd64-*-freebsd. gfortran has many Fortran 95 features that
g77 will never have. I can also state that on some of my
Fortran 77 codes, gfortran generated binaries out performs
the g77 binaries.
--
Steve