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List:       gcc-fortran
Subject:    Re: Bugs
From:       Walt Brainerd <walt () fortran ! com>
Date:       2005-03-27 15:26:57
Message-ID: 4246D0C1.3020000 () fortran ! com
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Paul Thomas wrote:

>> 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#

Hence F. But, of course, that doesn't help anybody
that is trying to implement the standard Fortran.

I haven't used Meissner's examples as tests. That is
a good idea and I'll do it when I get through the others.

Thanks for all the comments and offers to help. I'll
get cracking on the tests.

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