Lahey Support
08-15-2003, 01:33 AM
José L Gómez Dans wrote on Aug. 31:
> I think that the existance of a free compiler
>(http://g95.sourceforge.net) would be a great aid as well. I kno plenty
>of people using f77 because of g77 (apart from the seamless integration
>with gcc).
There are two problems using g77:
- The most important developments of Fortran 90 are lacking (e.g.
modules, ALLOCATE statement, pointers, optional arguments...).
For details see: Lahey Fortran 90 Manual, App. B. As a consequence,
using g77, one cannot process up-to-date programs got from scientific
information exchange sources. And, of course, he/she will not be able
writing up-to-date programs.
- This compiler is distributed according to the GNU license. It means,
everybody has the right to modify the source. Therefore, there is no
guaranty on the quality of the compiler. As a consequence, this
compiler must not be used solving problems requiring quality assurance.
(On the other side, this condition pronounces the responsibility of
the compiler vendors - the users have to pay for it.)
Regards,
E. J. Szondi
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SZONDI, Egon Janos [address removed]
Institute of Nuclear Techniques http://www.reak.bme.hu/~szondi
Budapest University
of Technology and Economics
H-1521 Budapest, Hungary Tel: ++36-1 463-1563
Muegyetem rkp. 9. Fax: ++36-1 463-1954
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> I think that the existance of a free compiler
>(http://g95.sourceforge.net) would be a great aid as well. I kno plenty
>of people using f77 because of g77 (apart from the seamless integration
>with gcc).
There are two problems using g77:
- The most important developments of Fortran 90 are lacking (e.g.
modules, ALLOCATE statement, pointers, optional arguments...).
For details see: Lahey Fortran 90 Manual, App. B. As a consequence,
using g77, one cannot process up-to-date programs got from scientific
information exchange sources. And, of course, he/she will not be able
writing up-to-date programs.
- This compiler is distributed according to the GNU license. It means,
everybody has the right to modify the source. Therefore, there is no
guaranty on the quality of the compiler. As a consequence, this
compiler must not be used solving problems requiring quality assurance.
(On the other side, this condition pronounces the responsibility of
the compiler vendors - the users have to pay for it.)
Regards,
E. J. Szondi
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SZONDI, Egon Janos [address removed]
Institute of Nuclear Techniques http://www.reak.bme.hu/~szondi
Budapest University
of Technology and Economics
H-1521 Budapest, Hungary Tel: ++36-1 463-1563
Muegyetem rkp. 9. Fax: ++36-1 463-1954
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