From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 10:12:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from f04n07.cac.psu.edu (f04s07.cac.psu.edu [128.118.141.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED2337B423 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 10:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by f04n07.cac.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA96284; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:12:17 -0400 Message-ID: <399EBFF1.C88E14B1@psu.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:12:17 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Organization: House of Hawkins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.17 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc van Woerkom Cc: pillsy@brown.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FORTRAN? References: <20000816023651.A79791@straylight.NONE> <20000818121844.2611D1E6B@nil.science-factory.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc van Woerkom wrote: > > Internet. One of the reasons I'm considering the change is that web > > site lists a native FORTRAN compiler as one of the new features in > > 4.x. Since FORTRAN is one of those things that I occasionally have a > > need for, and f2c isn't terribly efficient compared to native code, I > > was wondering if anybody has more info about this. > The GNU Fortran frontend (g77) is part of the newer GNU compiler > (formerly known as EGCS) together with C, C++, Objective C, javac, > guave (?) ... > So it is possibly not listed as g77 anymore in the ports. Note that g77 is very limited in what it provides. It's a nearly complete subset of f77, but common extensions are generally missing--including matrix operations that I never realized even *were* extensions, but had assumed were part of f66 . . . I'd like to tell you whether or not absofts f95 for linux works under freebsd, but you'll need to wait until I get my new machine in a couple of months :) hawk  To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message