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gfortrangfortranPosted May 13, 2004 15:26 UTC (Thu) by vblum (guest, #1151)In reply to: gfortran by jamesh Parent article: GCC gets a new Optimizer Framework Early 2003, there was a fork in the project. My understanding was that Andy Vaught (who, I think, founded g95?) did not agree with a roadmap for gcc inclusion that some of his co-developers wanted. The others splut and started on direct gcc inclusion - Andy went on, allegedly focussing on a usable compiler first and worrying about inclusion politics later. The others intergrated their branch of g95 into gcc tree-ssa officially. This explains why the gcc-g95 has all its mailing lists & infrastructure at gcc.gnu.org, while I cannot even find a mailing list on g95 itself any more - you have to email Andy Vaught directly, it seems ... on the other hand, he mainatins an active blog and the compiler seems to produce workable code for some highly complex pieces of code now ... Anyone out there with better information is welcome to correct me.
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gfortran Posted May 13, 2004 17:20 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] The only "live" part of the g95 (or gfortran) project is now fully integrated with GCC development.
gfortran Posted May 13, 2004 17:39 UTC (Thu) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link] So are gfortran (in gcc) and www.g95.org one branch? The appearance is very different ... (and g95.org is certainly rather live ...)
gfortran Posted May 20, 2004 9:53 UTC (Thu) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link] No. g95 is a separate project, although there is some cross-pollination. GNU gfortran lives at http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/ , and as has been said, is now part of mainline gcc, expected to release in 2005. Unfortunately the web page is somewhat out of date, check the fortran@gcc.gnu.org mailing list instead, archive is at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/ .If you want to compile F95 code right away, g95 is probably in a more usable state at the moment. However, considering that g95 is a one-man show I don't think it's long-term viability is as good as that of gfortran.
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