bug in g77

[Toon Moene]

Steven Castillo wrote:

> I wrote:

[ About fixing the upper limit on g77-compiled arrays, because their
  size is specified in bits ]

> > Your choices:
> >
> > 1. Help us fix this.
> >
> > 2. Switch to a 64-bit target, like Alpha.
> >
> > [ Hint:  The latter may be cheaper ]

> Thank you for your prompt reply!  I think that you pose an interesting
> problem that we may want to take a look at.  I am not sure I agree with
> your second possible solution.  Give me a hint at where in the source code
> to look and we may give it a shot.

Well, if it was _that_ simple, I'd done it myself :-)

The current size of the Fortran Frontend is:

[ wc -l gcc/gcc/f/*.[ch] ]

 132730 total

Because I do not know _where_ the problem resides, I'd have to check all
133K lines.  For me, that's certainly not cheaper than, say, a DS10.

Cheers,

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