Re: static function ? how ?

In article <4296BFE4.10DF44C5@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Arjen Markus <arjen.markus@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Richard E Maine wrote:
>>
>> In article <4295B20F.1FF7492D@xxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Arjen Markus <arjen.markus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > beliavsky@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Arjen Markus wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Perhaps "the GNU compiler" should be replaced with "a GNU compiler",
>> > > since gfortran exists :).
>> >
>> > Hm, yes, you are right - but GNU themselves promote "g95" ...
>>
>> Well, I'm not sure precisely what "GNU themselves" means, GNU not being
>> an organization. I would suspect you might mean the Free Software
>> Foundation, but that's not clear either. Mostly I suspect that you
>> aren't sure what it means either. :-(
>>
>
> Okay, I referred to the information found on http://www.gnu.org, in
> relation to the release of the GCC compiler set, version 4.0

Can you supply the URL that states g95 is contained in the GCC
4.0 release? That is clearly a mistake!

>> Since gfortran is part of the GCC compiler suite, while g95 is not, I
>> would have thought that the opposite of your statement was more nearly
>> true.
>>
>> I'm not meaning to express any opinion on the compilers; I'm just
>> puzzled about what you mean and what you base it on.
>>
>
> Press articles refer to g95, not gfortran. The site I mentioned above
> comes up with one link to g95 and none to gfortran - I used the
> search function.

Please supply URL's. A top-level search at http://www.gnu.org/
gives 9 hits for "gfortran". A top-level search on "g95" returns
2 hits, where one is clearly a typo in the gfortran documentation
and the other simply notes that the NIST test suite can be parsed
by g95 (again probably a typo).

> So, that is how I got the impression that g95 is the Fortran 95 compiler
> of GNU ...
>

You can get more info on gfortran at

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran

You may also be interested in

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/TheOtherGCCBasedFortranCompiler

in particular, you should note that g95's runtime library
is covered by the GPL not LGPL. Think about the consequence
if you plan to distribute a binary version on some program.


--
Steve
http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/
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