------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-04-07 23:27 ------- (In reply to comment #25) > 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.
What he means is asking once is fine yes but asking more and more is just bad form since we know this bug exists and yes we do know already. Also it is distros discussion what gets included, we (GCC) already said gfortran is more of a beta compiler and not really for full time use. And more of a technical preview. Now if you buy support from say RedHat or SuSE, well get them to fix it as you buy support from them. Most of us working right now on gfortran are just volunteers and yes I volunteer to work on GCC too and go through most of the bug reports and I fix the bugs which I can fix which effects the target I like the most (powerpc- darwin). I also do more work with the bug reports than what people see (well actually one person sees only I touch one bug since they usually open one bug) but I have touched and memorized almost all of the bug reports. sorry for the rant but people need to understand that we are all volunteers unless someone is getting paid to work, which I know only 2 gfortran developers are getting paid (part time or full time) to work on either GCC or gfrotran. I recall that those 2 gfortran developers are really getting paid to work on other parts of GCC and not gfortran mainly so they work on gfortran on their own time and don't get paid for it. I don't get paid for development work that I do. Again if you have a trouble with a certin distro, bring it up with them and not us since all we can do is say we know (marking the bug as a dup). -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13082
