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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:27:27PM -0800, Tim Prince wrote:
Joel Sherrill wrote:
Tobias Burnus wrote:How would anyone judge this, except by referring to gcc-testresults?
My first thought is does gfortran support and haveAccording to the GCC 4.4 Release Criteria, http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/criteria.html, only C and C++ are primary languages. And thus only C and C++ regressions can be release critical.
I propose to add Fortran to these languages. Reasons:
- Fortran is relatively widely used; while C/C++ is wider used, distributions and to a lesser users compile also libraries such as BLAS, LAPACK etc. which are written in Fortran
- gfortran has few (known;-) regressions. Currently, PR33296 and PR32841.
similarly good test results on all primary and secondary
platforms.
gfortran developers have cleared up a number of secondary platform
problems whose counterparts have been allowed to remain in the "primary"
language. In my experience, this supports the "actively maintained" point.
Maybe there could be a "semi-primary" or "experimental primary" status;
a feature could be treated as primary, but with the understanding that
the requirement will be waived if it causes excessive delay. The
"experimental" label could be dropped after a few successful releases.
I think that sounds reasonable. This won't be the last language, library, etc that will want to move up in status.
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