------- Comment #15 from sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu 2006-01-08 02:43 ------- Subject: Re: [meta-bug] g77 features lacking in gfortran
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 02:30:51AM -0000, Tobias dot Schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de wrote: > > I find this very offensive. As you will have noticed we have a problem report > about this, which is not closed as "WONTFIX", and thus we're definitely not > just calling this feature "excremental". Also, you're saying that Paul Thomas > (who wrote the original bug report where this wording is used) is > unprofessional and undedicated. The latter is easily disproved by taking a > look at the ChangeLog. In fact, everybody working on gfortran is doing so > out of dedication, as noone of us is getting paid for this work, and everybody > has access to commercial compilers.</rant> > > This construct in non-standard for the reasons quoted by Steve and and so far > the people working on gfortran have considered the importance of this bug > second to the other bugs they were fixing. If somebody cares enough he may > bring forth a patch, which -- provided sufficient quality -- will be > integrated, and we will be one step closer to a complete Fortran 66 compiler. > Wow. You took the words out of my mouth. It took me nearly 40 minutes to write my last reply. Self editing of some rather pointed comments. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19292
