-fdefault-integer-8 again!-(

[Jack Howarth]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:18:53PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> Jack, 
> 
> 1) I'm not a gfortran maintainer.
> 
> 2) I don't have commit access to the source code.
> 
> 3) Do these changes cause a different code path to be followed
>    through the compiler?  Someone needs to do the checking,
>    and it appears you want the gfortran maintainers to do this
>    for you.  That isn't how things work.
> 
> 4) How many years have you been hovering above gfortran (and gcc)
>    without actually contributing to its development?  It's a
>    rhetorical question because fortran/ChangeLog has revealed the
>    answer.  If you are so concerned about ppc-darwin, you've had
>    ample time to read K&R or H&S to become sufficiently versed in
>    C to actually contribute.  Quite frankly your incessant yammering
>    that ppc-darwin is broken without showing the least bit of effort
>    to help fix the problem has become nothing but a drone on deaf ears. 
> 
> Don't bother responding.  Jack meet SpamAssassan.  SpamAssassin meet Jack.
> 
> -- 
> Steve

    An interesting tirade...too bad it's non-factual. I have been focused on
fixing the bootstrap and testsuite results for x86_apple-apple-darwin*
and only posted powerpc-apple-darwin9 results because of the absence of
testresults.
                                  Jack