[tree-ssa]New fortran frontend

Joseph S. Myers jsm@polyomino.org.uk
Sat Jul 26 11:05:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Paul Brook wrote:

>         * gcc/doc/frontends.texi: Document new F95 frontend.

"front end" as a noun (see codingconventions.html), "front-end" as an 
adjective ("the front-end interface").

>         * gcc/doc/install.texi: Ditto.
>         * gcc/doc/invoks.texi: Ditto.
                         ^ typo

>         * gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi: Ditto.

What about information about Fortran standards support, in standards.texi 
or a link from there to the new front end's manual, and contributors in 
contrib.texi, likewise?

> ! The full distribution includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Fortran 95,
> ! Java, and Ada (in case of GCC 3.1 and later) compilers.  The full distribution
> ! also includes runtime libraries for C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Fortran 95, and
> ! Java.  In GCC 3.0 and later versions, GNU compiler testsuites are also
> ! included in the full distribution.

Observe that for Ada it says "in case of GCC 3.1 and later".  (The online
install docs are generated from mainline, but may be used by people
installing releases.)  Likewise, for Fortran 95, it should probably refer 
to GCC 3.5 and later.

> +   build_tarfile gcc-g95-${RELEASE} ${FORTRAN95_DIRS}

> !   for f in gcc gcc-ada gcc-g++ gcc-g77 gcc-fortran gcc-java gcc-objc gcc-testsuite gcc-core; do

There seems to be some inconsistency about whether the snapshot would be 
called gcc-g95 or gcc-fortran.

The depcomp script should have its upstream source documented in
codingconventions.html.  Even with it only being added on tree-ssa for now
I seem no harm in putting the documentation in codingconventions.html now
rather than when tree-ssa is merged onto mainline.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk



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