RFC/Patch for PR fortran/17675

[Andrew Pinski]

On Dec 31, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 01:18:20AM +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote:
>>> We can't guarantee delivery or timely fixing of bugs.
>>
>> Indeed.  But I was under the impression you Fortran folks were 
>> chasing little
>> bugs on x86 lately, while this big regression was plaguing the RISC 
>> world.
>>
>
> That's a very unfair accessment of the last several patches
> I've submitted!  The problem is we have only Paul Brook, who
> approves patches to fortran, and he appears swamped with ARM
> issues.  This isn't an indictment against Paul.  It's a simple
> fact of life that he has few cycles to burn.
>
> I also build gfortran of amd64 and i386 FreeBSD, so I'm
> acutely aware of 64-bit problems.

And I build it on ppc-darwin all the time and submit patches too
so the argument about RISC world is false.  Also IIRC ARM is fine
too.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski