Re: G5 fpu optimizations for g77 3.4???

[Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>]

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 02:50  PM, Toon Moene wrote:
> Dale Johannesen wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 08:10  AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
>
> > >    Well I am interested in the g77 compiler. I will be using
> > > fink on MacOS X which utilizes Apple's gcc compilers but
> > > packages the g77 from gcc 3.4. As far as I know there
> > > isn't an Apple g77 GCC compiler available. Or am I wrong?
>
> > That's correct.  Apple is not currently supporting g77.
>
> Is there a reason for that ?  From what I hear around me it would be 
> handy having *a* Fortran compiler installed by default on MacOS X,

This comes from up at least 2 levels of management, and none of the 
people who post here have
authority to change it.  Presumably they have a reason (my guess, the 
main consideration is
just lack of resources, a perception that everybody has more important 
things to work on).

> even if the "preferred" compiler is some proprietary one that has to 
> be bought and installed separately.

We're quite interested in SPEC numbers just now, and some of the SPECs 
are Fortran 95, and
there is no g95.  When there is, things may (I said *may*) be 
different...