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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Fortran in the base system (was Re: sysinstall)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812162058400.348-100000@picnic.mat.net> from Chuck Robey at "Dec 16, 1998  9: 0:14 pm"
To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:23:04 -0800 (PST)
Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, bs_13943_34262@adimus.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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According to Chuck Robey:
> On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> > According to Jordan K. Hubbard:
> > > > I fully understand the difference.  I'm suggesting the replacement
> > > > of current inferior functionality with a superior solution.
> > > 
> > > Agreed.  Send me the diffs and I'll commit them, modulo any gcc
> > > upgrading work (which is also planned) which may first be necessary.
> > > There.  End of argument and everything SETTLED NOW. :-)
> > > 
> > 
> > g77-0.5.19.1, which works with gcc-2.7.2.1, patches the gcc backend.
> > 
> > g77-0.5.23, which is the current version, only works with gcc-2.8.x.
> 
> Does it need to patch the backend also?  This is *real* bad design
> (grump).
> 

No, g77-0.5.23 does not patch the gcc-2.8.x backend.

The original design decision was forced on the g77 author because of
the gcc maintainer(s) refusal to correct some bad assumptions (bugs)
in the backend.

finger -l fortran@gnu.org | more

-- 
Steve

finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html

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