GNU Fortran 95: Opinions?

From: Scott Robert Ladd (coyote_at_coyotegulch.com)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:27:45 -0400

Hi,

gfortran (http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran) is the Fortran 95 compiler that will
replace g77 in the forthcoming 4.0.0 version of the GNU Compiler
Collection, GCC (http://gcc.gnu.org).

Since gfortran is still in development, I know many people have not
had a chance to use it. Snapshots are available from the GCC web site.

While an official release is still several months away, I'm interested in
knowing what Fortraners want from gfortran.

Note that I have *no* official capacity in terms of gfortran, though I
submit patches and do testing. For what it's worth, I'm a Fortran 95
programmer who wants to see GCC be more useful to the Fortran community. A
free compiler helps everyone, including commercial vendors, by making
Fortran 95 readily available.

I assume that compiling g77 code is a priority, as is correctly compiling
Fortran 95.

OpenMP won't be available until later, though progress is being made.

How important is MPI -- MPICH in particular? I'm considering waiting to
pursue this further until Open-MPI has its initial release in November.

Thanks for considered opinions. 

-- 
Scott Robert Ladd
site: http://www.coyotegulch.com
blog: http://chaoticcoyote.blogspot.com

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