[cfe-dev] Clang should natively support fortran

C Bergström via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Jun 23 08:14:21 PDT 2016


On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 05:54:09AM +0800, C Bergström via cfe-dev wrote:
>> Sorry to troll your post, but who on earth uses FreeBSD+Fortran? As a
>> person who works on a Fortran compiler almost every day I'm actually
>> asking. I suspect FreeBSD could remove support for Fortran and it
>> wouldn't even get noticed.
>
> There are some very high profile libraries written in Fortran :(

Come on.. I love Fortran and there's a lot of good things about it.. I
do want to kick the J3 about certain things, but those dinosaurs
aren't likely to listen...

What libraries are you referring to specifically? I don't know
anything in a typical base OS which depends on Fortran.



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