gfortran

[Tobias Schlüter]

Eef van Beveren <eef@teor.fis.uc.pt> wrote on Thu, 21 Dec 2006:
> There are even
> inconsistencies with regard to backslash
> (used to be always 2 backslashes when 1 is
> needed, but now it seems to depend on how it
> called. Hence, sometimes 1 sometimes 2 and
> God knows when 1 and when 2!).

If you depend on non-standard backslash handling, the language you're  
using is not Fortran.  Nevertheless, you may want to read the  
documentation of the -fno-backslash option, which may be what you  
need.  If you're trying to report a bug, please give more details.

> Thousands of
> lines of Fortran routines nust again be
> debugged. Beyond possibility, I do not have
> time for compiler builders who are joking with
> me. Please make g77 again available!!!!!

g77 is available from all GNU mirror sites.

You should direct your criticism towards:
A) your system operator for removing g77 from your installation
B) Fedora for no longer including g77 (if they did indeed drop it,  
which I didn't check)
C) the programmer of the code you're using for relying on non-standard  
features which are of little to no use

Best wishes, and the best of luck getting your code running again,
- Tobias Schlüter


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