fortran fe housecleaning

Toon Moene toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl
Sat Oct 20 09:02:00 GMT 2001


Richard Henderson wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 12:41:25AM +0200, Toon Moene wrote:

> > Well, that's not what I recall ... the f2c parser uses yacc ... try to
> > find any use of yacc in the f/ directory :-) :-)
> 
> Well, clearly it was from _somewhere_ else.  Otherwise why the
> GCC/FFE dichotomy?

You *do* mean the

#if FFECOM_targetCURRENT == FFECOM_targetGCC

stuff, don't you ?

I believe this is because Craig originally wanted to do much more with
the Fortran front end than just compiling ...  He envisioned it as a
multi-purpose tool to write a Fortran aware editor, for instance.

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