nist testsuite question.

[Janne Blomqvist]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:12:04PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:41:14PM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> > Uttam Pawar wrote:
> > >
> > >I was looking through the NIST fortran testsuite which as we know is
> > >written for fortran77. 
> > >I'm having problem in compiling and running them with gfortran with
> > >-std=f95 option. The construct in a test specially arithmatic IF
> > >statement (which checks the result of computation) with multiple go to
> > >is causing the tests not to compile with -std=f95 (obviously).
> > >
> > >Is there any plan on converting them or writing new tests to make them
> > >compatible with f95 standard?
> > >
> > >Can we really convert them and add to the gfortran test suite?
> > >
> > There is no real point in converting NIST to f95.  One of the many reasons 
> > we test with NIST is to make sure we can compile F77 code with gfortran 
> > since gfortran is the replacement for g77.  I will be putting together 
> > automatic regression testing of NIST sometime in the not too distant future.
> 
> I agree with Jerry, here.  Jerry, when you get the automatic
> regression testing set up, can you send me a copy.  At the
> moment, I run NIST on i386 and amd64 freebsd, but it is done
> by hand.

I would also be interested in this. Actually, if it isn't too much
trouble for you, why not put some instructions on how to set it up on
the wiki?

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Janne Blomqvist