Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:12:17 -0400 From: "Richard E. Hawkins" <reh18@psu.edu> To: Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@science-factory.com> Cc: pillsy@brown.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FORTRAN? Message-ID: <399EBFF1.C88E14B1@psu.edu> References: <20000816023651.A79791@straylight.NONE> <20000818121844.2611D1E6B@nil.science-factory.com>
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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
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