GCC developers and standards development

[Toon Moene]

James Dennett wrote:

> I believe that the Standards community look favourably on gcc
> both as being passably close to conformance at this time and
> as being a useful proving ground for extensions, but I don't
> know how well this is communicated to the Standards groups in
> general.

I may add to this that several members of J3 ( http://j3-fortran.org )
have expressed that a free implementation of the current Standard
(Fortran 95) is very important for the continued interest in Fortran by
the "public".

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