[Bug fortran/13082] Function entries and entries with alternate returns not implemented

[Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de]

------- Additional Comments From Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de  2005-04-08 07:36 -------
Subject: Re:  Function entries and entries with alternate returns not implemented

You wrote (in bugzilla):

> - We tried out the designed successor and found it very immature. In fact
>   it is not even a proper FORTRAN compiler because it does not implement
>   the standard. Then we started the usual interaction with the developers.
>   And here things started to degrade. On one side we ignored how thin is
>   this group of developers.  So we were a bit demanding in our approach.
>   On the other side the developers gave us the impression to not
>   understand how serious the situation is for us.

We expect that g77 will be provided by distributors
for some time to come.

> - The moral of the story is that the developers need some help, which I
>   cannot provide, because I am not a compiler expert (!).

Neither am I.  I am a chemical engineer with a working knowledge
of C, Unix and Fortran.  Still, I have some patches in the tree,
but only in the libgfortran library (which is simple enough so
I can understand most of it :), not in the compiler proper.

>   Of course this requires some
>   good will from the developers to check and introduce these patches.

I have just recently (yesterday :-) become an official gcc
developer, and I have found the people who were here before me
quite helpful.  For people who want to contribute, the door is open.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13082