------- Additional Comments From Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de 2005-04-08 07:36 ------- Subject: Re: Function entries and entries with alternate returns not implemented
You wrote (in bugzilla): > - We tried out the designed successor and found it very immature. In fact > it is not even a proper FORTRAN compiler because it does not implement > the standard. Then we started the usual interaction with the developers. > And here things started to degrade. On one side we ignored how thin is > this group of developers. So we were a bit demanding in our approach. > On the other side the developers gave us the impression to not > understand how serious the situation is for us. We expect that g77 will be provided by distributors for some time to come. > - The moral of the story is that the developers need some help, which I > cannot provide, because I am not a compiler expert (!). Neither am I. I am a chemical engineer with a working knowledge of C, Unix and Fortran. Still, I have some patches in the tree, but only in the libgfortran library (which is simple enough so I can understand most of it :), not in the compiler proper. > Of course this requires some > good will from the developers to check and introduce these patches. I have just recently (yesterday :-) become an official gcc developer, and I have found the people who were here before me quite helpful. For people who want to contribute, the door is open. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13082
