Re: GCC 4.0 Freeze

2005-04-17 Thread Christian Joensson
On 4/17/05, Jack Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even if there were complete g77 compatibility in g95, folks may want to stick with the g77 version from gcc 3.4 for awhile purely for performance reasons. In doing some test runs of the APBS Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver program, I

Re: GCC 4.0 Freeze

2005-04-16 Thread Branko ibej
Zack Weinberg wrote: This compiler does not support all of Fortran 77 yet. We recommend distributors continue to provide packages of g77 from GCC 3.4 for the time being. When gfortran is considered a complete replacement for g77 we will announce it. We recommend distributors continue...

Re: GCC 4.0 Freeze

2005-04-16 Thread Zack Weinberg
Branko ibej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zack Weinberg wrote: This compiler does not support all of Fortran 77 yet. We recommend distributors continue to provide packages of g77 from GCC 3.4 for the time being. When gfortran is considered a complete replacement for g77 we will announce

Re: GCC 4.0 Freeze

2005-04-16 Thread Branko ibej
Zack Weinberg wrote: Branko ibej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zack Weinberg wrote: This compiler does not support all of Fortran 77 yet. We recommend distributors continue to provide packages of g77 from GCC 3.4 for the time being. When gfortran is considered a complete replacement for g77

Re: GCC 4.0 Freeze

2005-04-16 Thread Jack Howarth
Even if there were complete g77 compatibility in g95, folks may want to stick with the g77 version from gcc 3.4 for awhile purely for performance reasons. In doing some test runs of the APBS Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver program, I discovered that the g95 built binary runs 60% slower than

Re: GCC 4.0 Freeze

2005-04-16 Thread James A. Morrison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Howarth) writes: Even if there were complete g77 compatibility in g95, folks may want to stick with the g77 version from gcc 3.4 for awhile purely for performance reasons. In doing some test runs of the APBS Adaptive Poisson-Boltzmann Solver program, I discovered

Re: GCC 4.0 Freeze

2005-04-10 Thread Toon Moene
Mark Mitchell wrote: Please treat the GCC 4.0 branch as frozen as of this time. All non-documentation changes now need my explicit approval. I'll spin prerelease bits soon. It's a pity a couple of important gfortran bug fixes didn't make it, but work is under way to get them applied to 4.0.1.

Re: GCC 4.0 Freeze

2005-04-10 Thread Thomas Koenig
Toon Moene wrote: I'm still thinking about the text to warn gfortran users for the fact that this compiler at present doesn't cover all of Fortran 77 - and that we assume distributors to provide access to g77 as long as that's useful. What about This compiler at present doesn't cover all

Re: GCC 4.0 Freeze

2005-04-10 Thread Mark Mitchell
Eric Christopher wrote: On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 21:13 +0200, Thomas Koenig wrote: Toon Moene wrote: I'm still thinking about the text to warn gfortran users for the fact that this compiler at present doesn't cover all of Fortran 77 - and that we assume distributors to provide access to g77 as

Re: GCC 4.0 Freeze

2005-04-09 Thread Christian Parpart
On Saturday 09 April 2005 9:02 am, Mark Mitchell wrote: Please treat the GCC 4.0 branch as frozen as of this time. All non-documentation changes now need my explicit approval. I've reported a bug on gcc-help list, but nooone seem to be interested in. That's really sad, because I rely on this