g77 testsuite (was RE: IMPLICIT CHARACTER*# causing 35 regressions in NIST testsuite)

[Steve Kargl]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:48:48AM +1000, Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS) wrote:
> > From:  Steve Kargl
> >
> > If you want to start collecting code, I would recommend the
> > NIST F77 test suite, LAPACK from netlib, the NSWC math library,
> > the g77 testsuite, and a bunch of software from www.fortran.com.
> 
> What plans are there for the g77 testsuite under gfortran?
>  - It may be possible to run it pretty much "as is" using gfortran.
>  - Alternatively, quite a few of the tests could be incorporated
>    into gfortran.fortran-torture.
> 
> I would be interested in contributing to either of these projects.
> Thoughts?

I don't know what the plans for the g77 testsuite (G77TS) are, but I
do know almost all tests compile.  My version of the G77TS is not
set up for execution, so I can't verify if anything actually 
executes.  

One area of failures in the G77TS are the bit manipulation functions
(eg, IBSET).  gfortran only supports these functions with default
integer kind while the G77TS has tests for INTEGER*1, INTEGER*2, and
INTEGER*8.

-- 
Steve