Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!motcsd!mcdcup!mcdchg!tellab5!mtcchi!levy From: levy@mtcchi.uucp (2656-Daniel R. Levy(0000000)0000) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: GNU Fortran: Help, Anyone? Message-ID: <1990Jul17.165053.2336@mtcchi.uucp> Date: 17 Jul 90 16:50:53 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Memorex Telex Corporation NSBG/STP Lines: 32 burley@world.std.com (James C Burley) writes: >Hi. I'm working on GNU Fortran. In particular, the front end; the idea >being that, once I finish it, we "simply" attach it to GCC (the GNU C >compiler) and "just" write a run-time library and out pops a free Fortran >compiler. >I'd like to build a (relatively small) email list (or perhaps newsgroup?) >consisting of people who have significant and detailed knowledge of Fortran >77, widely used Fortran extensions, and Fortran 90 (aka 8x aka 9x). >FYI, I'm doing this project as a Free Software Foundation (FSF) volunteer, >so I'm not paying anyone anything! The rewards are the usual: the feeling >of answering someone else's silly question with The Truth; helping to create >a new, useful, Free Software Product; spending time doing someone else's >work instead of your own; and so on. >And if you REALLY want to help in a serious way, if you want to start >designing and/or coding a run-time library for F77/extensions/F90 in GCC, >let me know. You won't have a compiler to work with right away, but that >might not stop a truly ... -ahem- ... "inspired" individual! How about starting with, or at least going for link compatibility with, AT&T's _freeware_ f2c converter/compiler? There is lots of room to expand their good but rather basic standard library and plain Fortran-77 capability. You could add Fortran-90 features, VMS-style goodies, and more to that platform, and it feeds just about any K&R or ANSI C compiler. -- Daniel R. Levy * Memorex Telex * Naperville IL * ..!uunet!tellab5!mtcchi!levy So far as I can remember, there is not one ... therefore be ye as shrewd word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. as serpents and harmless as -- Bertrand Russell [Berkeley UNIX fortune] doves -- God [Matthew 10:16]