Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:27:51 -0800 (PST) From: alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Fortran conundrum Message-ID: <199812220827.AAA17609@hub.freebsd.org>
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In Reply to Your Message of Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22: 49:19 PST
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 03:27:36 -0500
From: Jerry Alexandratos <alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
Message-ID: <199812220327.aa28739@mail.eecis.udel.edu>
Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> says:
: As I promised Mike Smith, I have been looking over the Fortran
: situation in -current. From the last round of email, we had
: essentially 3 opinions:
:
: (1) Status quo
: (2) Upgrade to g77 -- g77 produces "better" code than f2c+gcc, and it
: (3) Rip Fortran out of the base distribution.
:
: Comments?
Hey, maybe this would be a good time to revisit the idea of moving to
egcs as our compiler toolchain. 8)
--Jerry
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