Re: egcs-1.1.1 issues; Fortran

["Jeffrey A. Law" <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <9809161858.AA12914@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>you write:
  > >  Basically I'd kind of like to hear from the various groups
  > >  (C++, Fortran, various backend/target folks) about the
  > >  most serious bugs they've seen reported against egcs-1.1
  > >  so that we can at least get a list of things we'd like
  > >  to fix, and from that list select the ones that we
  > >  actually can/should fix for egcs-1.1.1.
  > 
  > I think it would be a good idea to include the documentation  
  > updates Craig sent in just after the release of 1.1 ;-)
Already installed.

  > and Dave's  "some g77 doc'toring".
This would be fine too if someone sends me the patch :-)  Or Dave can just
install the doc changes on the branch.

  > Furthermore, the "recursive I/O bug" patch (whichever was approved  
  > by Craig) should go into libf2c (Note that I still see test suite  
  > output coming in with a failure in io0.f, which tests this - did the  
  > patch really go into the mainline ?).
I've given Dave the OK to install this fix on the branch too.


  > Other open bug reports _against the release_:
  > 
  > On the 7th of September Marc Dejardin <Marc.Dejardin@cern.ch>  
  > posted a report on an "internal error--insn does not satisfy its  
  > constraints" when compiling a routine from CERNLIB on a powerpc  
  > based machine.
  > 
  > Looks like a powerpc backend problem.
No clue where we stand on this one.

jeff