[G95] Re: [tree-ssa] Integrating g95

[Neil Booth]

Daniel Berlin wrote:-

> 
> On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 02:38  PM, Michael S. Zick wrote:
> 
> >On Saturday 31 May 2003 09:08 pm, law@redhat.com wrote:
> >>
> >>[ I suspect asking the g95 folks to rewrite their code to avoid GMP
> >>  probably isn't going to be well received :-) ]
> >>
> >>jeff
> >Yea - right after C is rewritten not to depend on libc.
> >I hereby grant my trophy for unpopular suggestions to jeff.
> 
> Wasn't there discussion a while back about wanting to use GMP (or a 
> subset) for doing host math anyway?
> But it wasn't done because we didn't want to add another library 
> requirement?
> If G95 is going to need it, maybe we should just use it and be done 
> with it?
> Or am i remembering all this wrong?

We've wanted to do something better than the double-integer kludges
for a while, but not to penalize the normal cases where single or
double-integer math is sufficient, so yes.

But it's a long, hard job and no-one's stepped up to the plate.

Neil.