Re: RFC: GCC 4.4 criteria - add Fortran as primary language?

[Tim Prince <tprince at computer dot org>]

Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Tobias Burnus wrote:
> > According to the GCC 4.4 Release Criteria,
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/criteria.html, only C and C++ are primary
> > languages. And thus only C and C++ regressions can be release critical.
> >
> > I propose to add Fortran to these languages. Reasons:
> >
> > - Fortran is relatively widely used; while C/C++ is wider used,
> > distributions and to a lesser users compile also libraries such as BLAS,
> > LAPACK etc. which are written in Fortran
> >
> > - gfortran has few (known;-) regressions. Currently, PR33296 and 
> > PR32841.
> >   
> My first thought is does gfortran support and have
> similarly good test results on all primary and secondary
> platforms.
How would anyone judge this, except by referring to gcc-testresults?
gfortran developers have cleared up a number of secondary platform 
problems whose counterparts have been allowed to remain in the "primary" 
language.  In my experience, this supports the "actively maintained" point.