From help-request at octave dot org Fri Dec 17 15:52:07 2004 Subject: gfortran From: "Paul Thomas" To: "Joe Koski" , "Samir Sharshar" , "Per Persson" Cc: "Octave Help" Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:54:01 +0100 > > First, I tried gfortran on three old Fortran codes: one encountered an > internal compiler error (known), one compiled but failed at execution, and > the third worked properly. In other words, gfortran is still "alpha" and > not > ready to be a work horse yet. > Joe and Samir, Gfortran is getting there very rapidly - see http://gfortran.org and the link to the gfortran list. It matters enormously how recent a snapshot you are using. Check out the gcc-4.00 cvs gcc and gfortran to five it a whirl. If you find bugs, please submit them to gnu bugzilla, especially if the code is fortran77. Paul T ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------