[tree-ssa]New fortran frontend
Paul Brook
paul@nowt.org
Sat Jul 26 17:26:00 GMT 2003
On Saturday 26 July 2003 1:42 pm, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> > ! 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.
>
> The official name of the language is "Fortran". The older version is
> called "FORTRAN 77" or "Fortran 77". So the language list should
> rather read something like
>
> [...] includes the C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran 77, Fortran, Java, and
> Ada [...]
I guess it makes sense in this case. I'll change it.
G77 actually calls itself the GNU Fortran Compiler, and compiles programs
written in "The GNU Fortran Language" (which is based on Fortran 77). I was
trying to avoid confusion between the two.
Paul
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