Re: gfortran 2007 annual report

kostelich.asu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jan 8, 11:27 pm, baf <b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ejk...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jan 6, 6:34 am, Toon Moene <t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
James Van Buskirk wrote:
On Windows, you probably mean. I use gfortran as a native 64 bit
compiler on GNU/Linux AMD64 now for about 2.5 years.
I'm reluctant to criticize a volunteer effort, but I've never,
ever had any luck with gfortran for anything other than the
simplest programs. I always encounter a show-stopping problem.
Case in point: I downloaded the latest (Dec. 27) Cygwin build
and tried to compile the Schwartztrauber FFT library
with gfortran -c. The compiler was still running after 4 hours
when I killed it.
--Eric
Very strange. I grabbed the fft source (rfft-1.2-ss-90.01.tgz) fromhttp://www.jjj.de/fft/fftpage.html, put all of the fortran source files
in a directory and typed

gfortran -c *.f

and got all of the source files compiled in a couple of seconds. There
were 4 warning messages about array ifac having out of bound subscript
references, but that is pretty common in old fortran source. For this
test I used 4.3.0 (20070824) i386-pc-mingw32

I would suggest you try the ming32 (native) version rather than the
cygwin version.

It could well be a problem with the latest Cygwin build (which is
unusable).
While I'm not trying to disparage an honorable effort, it seems to me
that if I can't get gfortran to work, then there must be many others
who can't, either.

I haven't had serious problems either with builds I made from source
(IA-64, x86-64, ia32 linux, cygwin) or got from others (x86-64 linux and
64-bit mingw). I've even seen over 50% of the PRs which I filed fixed.
I've built and tested 2 million source line MPI applications, with
fewer problems (aside from mediocre performance) than pre-release
commercial compilers. Much more than an honorable effort.
.

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