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Re: Bugs
- From: Walt Brainerd <walt at fortran dot com>
- To: Paul Thomas <paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr>
- Cc: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 08:26:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: Bugs
- References: <001301c53298$88fb8550$0100000a@Paul>
Paul Thomas wrote:
Everyone involved with gfortran (and GCC) should be excited that
Walt is testing gfortran. If I'm not mistaken, he is one of the
co-designers of F; he has co-authored several books on Fortran and
F; he participates in discuss on c.lf; and I believe he's active
in J3 (the standards committee).
He also agreed, readily, to post a link to gfortran on his goldmine of
a site: fortran dot com - you will find us at the top of the free
software page. Nearly all the gfortran PRs I have posted have come
from test programs available at this site and, I rather think, doubled
up in Walt's testsuite (eg. Meissner examples, Walt?). Having gone
through this exercise, I know how costly in time is the task of
reducing the bugged programs to examples for PRs. Since I might
recognise some of them(!), I am also willing to share in the
processing of the problem programs.
Paul T
PS
Walt remarked in 1983 about fortran committees:
"The committee seemed to have rejected the idea of a small elegant
core. It appears to be the old problem that a committee simply cannot
design something small and elegant; one person's frill is another's
essential feature, and for some reason a committee almost always seems
to vote to include things in this category rather than exclude them.
After everything else is done, it still may be possible to identify a
small 'core'."
Wouldn't it have been nice for gfortran? #sigh#
Hence F. But, of course, that doesn't help anybody
that is trying to implement the standard Fortran.
I haven't used Meissner's examples as tests. That is
a good idea and I'll do it when I get through the others.
Thanks for all the comments and offers to help. I'll
get cracking on the tests.
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