trouble using gfortran

[Jerry DeLisle]

Paul Thomas wrote:
> Silvain,
> 
> Steve and Tobias have already given you good advice - your English is 
> fine but you need to explain more what you are trying to do and what 
> goes wrong with it.
> 
> As general bit of advice, it is worth while checking if you assume in 
> your code that all variables and pointers are initialized to zero/null. 
> gfortran does not do this for you but many other compilers do.  In the 
> last six months, I have found this to be the biggest hinderance, by far, 
> to people getting existing code up and running with gfortran.  HJ Lu, 
> myself and now Jerry DeLisle are all trying to get the quantum chemistry 
> package, tonto, to run.  HJ has found that it is full of assumed NULL 
> initializations.
> I have found the same, recently with a tokamak equilibrium code, proteus.
> 
> Who would vote for -fzero-all-variables and -fnull-pointers?
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
I would vote for the -finitialize.

How would this be accomplished? and who would like to take it on?

Jerry