[Bug fortran/67250] gfortran does not faithfully preprocess the way cpp does

manu at gcc dot gnu.org gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Wed Aug 19 12:46:00 GMT 2015


https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67250

--- Comment #14 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Jeff Hammond from comment #13)
> This is all fair.  I try very hard to fix my own bugs and submit patches,
> but in this case I am wholly unqualified.  I don't know the first thing
> about implementing a production compiler, or any compiler for that matter.

To work on GCC, you mostly need to know C/C++, how to use GDB and be able to
setup the bootstrap and regression test environment. Most tasks are not hard or
require any special knowledge, just tedious (run the testsuite, follow-up on
patches, trace code through the debugger and figure out why it is not working
as it should). In fact, GCC is not lacking patches, there are many unapplied
patches in bugzilla and the mailing lists. It lacks people motivated enough to
do all the red-tape work necessary to get a patch applied to the repository.


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