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List:       gcc-fortran
Subject:    Re: Bugs
From:       "Paul Thomas" <paulthomas2 () wanadoo ! fr>
Date:       2005-03-27 6:45:15
Message-ID: 001301c53298$88fb8550$0100000a () Paul
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> Everyone involved with gfortran (and GCC) should be excited that
> Walt is testing gfortran.  If I'm not mistaken, he is one of the
> co-designers of F; he has co-authored several books on Fortran and
> F; he participates in discuss on c.lf; and I believe he's active
> in J3 (the standards committee).

He also agreed, readily, to post a link to gfortran on his goldmine of a 
site: fortran dot com - you will find us at the top of the free software 
page.  Nearly all the gfortran PRs I have posted have come from test 
programs available at this site and, I rather think, doubled up in Walt's 
testsuite (eg. Meissner examples, Walt?).  Having gone through this 
exercise, I know how costly in time is the task of reducing the bugged 
programs to examples for PRs.  Since I might recognise some of them(!), I am 
also willing to share in the processing of the problem programs.

Paul T

PS

Walt remarked in 1983 about fortran committees:

"The committee seemed to have rejected the idea of a small elegant core. It 
appears to be the old problem that a committee simply cannot design 
something small and elegant; one person's frill is another's essential 
feature, and for some reason a committee almost always seems to vote to 
include things in this category rather than exclude them. After everything 
else is done, it still may be possible to identify a small 'core'."

Wouldn't it have been nice for gfortran? #sigh# 



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