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Re: Proposal for warning in gfortran documentation and man page.
Steve Kargl wrote, as suggested language for this warning:
> @emph{Gfortran is in an early stage of development of a
> fully compliant Fortran 95 compiler}. It can generate code
> for most constructs and expressions, but work remains to be
> done. In particular, there are known deficiencies with
> ENTRY, NAMELIST, and sophiscated use of MODULES and DERIVED
> TYPES. Individuals, whose Fortran codes conform to either
> the Fortran 77 standard or the Gnu Fortran 77 language,
> should continue to use g77 from GCC 3.4 as the recommended
> compiler. The @command{gfortran} developers welcome any
> feedback on user experience with @command{gfortran} at
> @email{fortran@gcc.gnu.org}.
A few grammatical suggestions, and incorporating a bit of the early
language regarding suggestion to distributors (though that may be
obvious from the recommendation to users):
@emph{Gfortran is in an early stage of development.} When finished, it
will be a fully compliant Fortran 95 compiler. Currently, it can
generate code for most constructs and expressions, but work remains to
be done. In particular, there are known deficiencies with ENTRY,
NAMELIST, and sophisticated use of MODULES and DERIVED TYPES.
Individuals whose Fortran codes conform to either the Fortran 77
standard or the Gnu Fortran 77 language should continue to use g77 from
GCC 3.4 as the recommended compiler. We recommend that distributors
continue to provide packages for this purpose for the time being.. The
@command{gfortran} developers welcome any feedback on user experience
with @command{gfortran} at @email{fortran@gcc.gnu.org}.
(Disclaimer: it's 2:00am here, and I'm up late watching code run, and my
editing skills are likely notably below my usual.)
- Brooks
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