------- Additional Comments From fasso at slac dot stanford dot edu 2005-04-07
23:16 -------
> Sigh. Yes, it would be wonderful if a fix magically appears out
> of thin air. Given that there are more bugs than people actually
> contributing patches, you have a few choice: (1) Pay someone to
> fix the problem; (2) Get the source code, fix the problem, and
> contribute the code back to GCC; (3) wait patiently until such
> time that one of the few people working on gfortran has time to
> fix the problem; (4) or complain and piss off the people who
> owe you nothing.
I do not understand your tone. There is a compiler, g77, which works and
implements at least the Fortran 77 standard. I don't see any reason why it
should be replaced in the distribution by a compiler which is not yet mature
enough to implement the same standard. Your effort is appreciated, but wait to
have something which works before removing the old compiler. A compiler which
does not implement ENTRY is useless for most of the programs used in physics and
engineering. Having that as the default Linux compiler will seriously affect my
work and that of many colleagues.
The attitude expressed in "piss off the people who owe you nothing" can be very
bad for the future of Linux. I hope this is not the way user's feedback is
generally received.
Alberto Fasso`, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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