Re: [G95-develop] Should g77 accept file extensions .f90 and .f95 ?

[Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>]

Zack Weinberg <zack@wolery.cumb.org> writes:

> 1. The present g77 implementation is close to incomprehensible for
>    anyone other than the original author, who has left the project.
>    Fixing bugs - and there are plenty of bugs - is painful.  Look at
>    how long some of the Fortran tests have been failing without anyone
>    even looking at them...  You can forget about any improvements.
>    For example, we'll never get functions-as-trees support in g77, or
>    proper aliasing logic.

They don't fail on powerpc (there are no g77 failures on
powerpc-linux, and the only ones on powerpc-eabi now are the ones that
fail because they try to do syscalls the sim doesn't support).  I
expect what has happened is that the people who work on the affected
backends don't understand Fortran---or possibly don't want to debug
loop which is where most of the problems really are.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>