From: ken@phys.titech.ac.jp (Ken-ichiro Aoki) Subject: Re: Fortran, f2c and so on... Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 00:06:28 GMT
In article <1993Jun30.193312.3222@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> zevans@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zack Evans) writes:
> In article <20sjcg$1ag@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> fricke@ikki.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Fricke) writes:
> >There are several questions about FORTRAN and Linux.
> >
> >1. Is there any Compiler?
> > The answer is NO, but there is a fortran-to-C converter (f2c),
> > which allows to translate STANDARD F77 into K&R C, Ansi C or C++
> > (optional).
> I think the FSF are working on a Fortran compiler to compliment gcc...does
> anyone know any more about this, like when it's likely to be finished?
g77, a fortran front-end for gcc.
GNU bulletin says it's in private alpha. For understandable
reasons, GNU software people seem to be reluctant to predict dates.
> f2c might not be a good way to compile fortran programs, but
> 1) It works
> 2) It's free
> 3) It's the only way to compile fortran under Linux.
I will also add that in my experience, it is robust.
It has been around long enough so I suspect it is bugfree
than some of the commercial products.
The drawback is that source-level debugging is pretty much useless.
Personally, I usually compile fortran libraries (say netlib) in f2c
and then link them to C code, so it is not a problem.
I really would like to thank the people at Bell Labs (I believe)
for releasing f2c.
Zack