g77 legacy features in gfortran

[Richard Guenther]

On 10/8/07, Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> wrote:
>     We have had a request to update the g77 package to
> provide MacIntel support in the fink packages on Mac OS X.
> I am told that the following issues require the continued
> existence of a g77 package in fink...
>
> 1) support for multiple entry points in subprocedures (sad but necessary
> for legacy code);
> 2) EQUIVALENCE in COMMON;
> 3) stabs or dwarf debugging information for COMMON and EQUIVALENCE
> symbols;
> 4) source input compatibility (tab handling and free-form continuation).
>
> Are this all still accurate for gfortran in gcc trunk? I assume the
> third may be true, but am wondering about the others.
>       Thanks in advance for any clarifications.
>                  Jack

Just build g77 from the latest GCC 3.4 based release.

Richard.