From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: Re: g77 with Cygnu.b18 9 May 1997 23:39:45 -0700 Sender: mail AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <9705092352.AA23450.cygnus.gnu-win32@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> Original-To: "Wei Ku" Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 May 1997 10:45:58 EDT." <199705091446 DOT KAA22488 AT solid DOT ssd DOT ornl DOT gov> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com "Wei Ku" writes: > > Hello Mr Khan: > As I understand, the g77 you ported needs the corresponding gcc (b.17.1) = > in the same tar.Z file. Does that mean that the g77 you ported will not = > work under b.18 ( because of difference between the gcc's ) ? > I am willing to try Cygnu b18. However, the g77 you ported is the only = > FORTRAN compiler I can use in my home PC. ( My old Microsoft FORTRAN = > compiler can not handle array of size larger than 64 K bytes). Also, I = > am porting a FORTRAN package that is originally for UNIX. > Please let me know if I can install the Cygnu b18 and kepp g77 working. > Sincerely, > Wei Ku > The current plan is to release g77 0.5.19.1, NOT g77 0.5.20, for b18. g77 0.5.20 has some nasty bugs, and even Craig Burley (g77 author) suggests in a posting in comp.lang.fortran using 0.5.19.1 until 0.5.21 i arrives. Even when 0.5.21 arrives, I still won't port it to gnu-win32 until FSF releases 2.8 (and gnu-win32 hopefully will have merged its changes with the FSF release). The back-end differences are too time-consuming, not to mention error-prone, to track for a non-compiler hacker like me. That said, watch for g77-0.5.19.1 source patches and binaries for b18 sometime next week. Will announce here. btw, since b18 still has buggy bsearch, my copy of g77 will use its own fixed one, and functions/subroutines with names like zswap will compile ok. Regards, Mumit -- khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/ http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".