From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 22 08:56:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA16227 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 08:56:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA16221 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 08:56:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA48584; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:03:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199812221703.JAA48584@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Fortran conundrum In-Reply-To: <199812220827.AAA17609@hub.freebsd.org> from "alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu" at "Dec 22, 1998 0:27:51 am" To: alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:03:41 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu: > 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 > Message-ID: <199812220327.aa28739@mail.eecis.udel.edu> > > Steve Kargl 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) > See last weeks email archive about this discussion. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message