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Proposal for warning in gfortran documentation and man page.
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- To: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:39:17 +0200
- Subject: Proposal for warning in gfortran documentation and man page.
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
L.S.,
Attached is my proposal for the warning in the gfortran documentation
and man page. Passed make info, make man and make dvi on
powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu.
Please comment.
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Toon Moene - e-mail: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl - phone: +31 346 214290
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2005-04-12 Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
* gfortran.texi: Add warning that gfortran doesn't
compile all of Fortran 77 yet.
* invoke.texi: Ditto.
*** gfortran.texi.orig Sat Apr 2 13:53:19 2005
--- gfortran.texi Tue Apr 12 07:27:24 2005
*************** designed initially as a free replacement
*** 174,182 ****
or alternative to, the unix @command{f95} command;
@command{gfortran} is command you'll use to invoke the compiler.
! Gfortran is still in an early state of development.
@command{gfortran} can generate code for most constructs and expressions,
! but much work remains to be done.
When @command{gfortran} is finished,
it will do everything you expect from any decent compiler:
--- 174,186 ----
or alternative to, the unix @command{f95} command;
@command{gfortran} is command you'll use to invoke the compiler.
! emph{Gfortran is still in an early state of development.}
@command{gfortran} can generate code for most constructs and expressions,
! but much work remains to be done. In particular, this compiler does not
! support all of Fortran 77 yet. We recommend distributors continue to
! provide packages of g77 from GCC 3.4 for the time being.
! When gfortran is considered a complete replacement for g77 we will
! announce it.
When @command{gfortran} is finished,
it will do everything you expect from any decent compiler:
*** invoke.texi.orig Sun Apr 10 13:14:52 2005
--- invoke.texi Tue Apr 12 07:28:07 2005
*************** GFORTRAN@.
*** 69,74 ****
--- 69,82 ----
The @command{gfortran} command supports all the options supported by the
@command{gcc} command. Only options specific to gfortran are documented here.
+ emph{Gfortran is still in an early state of development.}
+ @command{gfortran} can generate code for most constructs and expressions,
+ but much work remains to be done. In particular, this compiler does not
+ support all of Fortran 77 yet. We recommend distributors continue to
+ provide packages of g77 from GCC 3.4 for the time being.
+ When gfortran is considered a complete replacement for g77 we will
+ announce it.
+
@xref{Invoking GCC,,GCC Command Options,gcc,Using the GNU Compiler
Collection (GCC)}, for information
on the non-Fortran-specific aspects of the @command{gcc} command (and,