[tree-ssa] Maintaining g95

[Toon Moene]

Nick Burrett wrote:

> Toon Moene wrote:
> 
>> Ben Elliston wrote:
>>
>>> Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> We thing we're now ready for inclusion. Nothing special needs to be
>>>> done: just drop in the g95 and libgfor directories, and a small
>>>> patch to teach toplevel configure about libgfor.
>>>
>>> libgfor seems like an award name -- it's not clear what "for" stands
>>> for. [:-)] Is it the G95 runtime?  If so, how about libg95?
>>
>> Indeeed - an award-winning name :-) - What we try to achieve is to 
>> loosen the strings between the GNU Fortran 95 project and the Fortran 
>> 95 standard.  In about a year there will be a new standard (informally 
>> known as Fortran 2000); obviously we want to expand the compiler (and 
>> run time library to embrace that standard.  It won't be helpful to be 
>> bound to the `g95' name, then ...
> 
> If you are to do that, then shouldn't the compiler sources reside in a 
> directory not bound to the 'g95' name ?

Yes, it would be better if it resided in a more neutrally named 
directory.  However, `f/' is already taken, so that should be `for/' or 
something like that.

Note that this directory name is not externally visible, while a run 
time library (like libgfor.a) is.

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