RFC: GCC 4.4 criteria - add Fortran as primary language?

[Joel Sherrill]

Tobias Burnus wrote:
> According to the GCC 4.4 Release Criteria,
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/criteria.html, only C and C++ are primary
> languages. And thus only C and C++ regressions can be release critical.
>
> I propose to add Fortran to these languages. Reasons:
>
> - Fortran is relatively widely used; while C/C++ is wider used,
> distributions and to a lesser users compile also libraries such as BLAS,
> LAPACK etc. which are written in Fortran
>
> - gfortran has few (known;-) regressions. Currently, PR33296 and PR32841.
>   
My first thought is does gfortran support and have
similarly good test results on all primary and secondary
platforms.
> - It is actively maintained
>
> - the RM can still downgrade regressions to P4 to P6.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tobias
>   


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