Re: Patch: f2c.h Question: objc backend

[Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>]

>>>>> "Craig" == Craig Burley <burley@gnu.org> writes:

 Craig> This allows g77 to configure and build more automatically than
 Craig> the f2c version of libf2c would by itself (though, perhaps
 Craig> official f2c+libf2c has improved since this was last known to
 Craig> be a problem a couple of years ago).

It's unchanged in that respect and the maintainer was unenthusiastic
about autoconfism.

 Craig>   1.  We could bring all of f2c into the gcc/g77 product
 Craig>       packaging.  It wouldn't take much additional space, but
 Craig>       could take a fair amount of work to get all the
 Craig>       configuration, build, and porting issues resolved enough
 Craig>       to make it worthwhile.

FWIW that's all been done but long enough ago that bitrot will have
set in.  Also it uses automake, which ISTR is verboten in gcc.  (It
was requested for a GNU distribution of f2c but I never wrote the
required Texinfo doc.)  [BTW, f2c is particularly useful for
generating (currently, and with the default options) g77-compatible C
prototypes for Fortran routines.]

Sorry to confuse matters with a misapprehension about why the messing
about is being done as it is.  There definitely are problems with
people mixing G77 code and C being screwed by f2c stuff, though.