Re: bug in g77

[Steven Castillo <scastill at nmsu dot edu>]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Toon Moene wrote:

> Steven Castillo wrote:
> 
> > I wrote:
> 
> [ About fixing the upper limit on g77-compiled arrays, because their
>   size is specified in bits ]
> 
> > > Your choices:
> > >
> > > 1. Help us fix this.
> > >
> > > 2. Switch to a 64-bit target, like Alpha.
> > >
> > > [ Hint:  The latter may be cheaper ]
> 
> > Thank you for your prompt reply!  I think that you pose an interesting
> > problem that we may want to take a look at.  I am not sure I agree with
> > your second possible solution.  Give me a hint at where in the source code
> > to look and we may give it a shot.
> 
> Well, if it was _that_ simple, I'd done it myself :-)
> 
> The current size of the Fortran Frontend is:
> 
> [ wc -l gcc/gcc/f/*.[ch] ]
> 
>  132730 total
> 
> Because I do not know _where_ the problem resides, I'd have to check all
> 133K lines.  For me, that's certainly not cheaper than, say, a DS10.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 

Thank you Toone.  I may have a go at it.

-- 
Steve Castillo

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Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Mexico State University
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