[cfe-commits] [RFC and PATCH] Fortran

[Hal Finkel]

On Fri, 04 May 2012 16:03:24 -0700
Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

> On May 4, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Hal Finkel wrote:
> >>> If we set this up kind of like clang is
> >>> setup, then the build system will detect whether there is a
> >>> fortran subdirectory in clang, and if so, will build (defining
> >>> CLANG_HAS_FORTRAN or something like that) and link the extra
> >>> components.
> >> 
> >> Should "flang" (please come up with a better name! :) be in
> >> llvm/tools/flang or in llvm/tools/clang/flang?  I think that the
> >> former makes more sense.  These are peer projects, even if one is
> >> dependent on the other.
> > 
> > Yea, I was avoiding that :) If we really want something with 'lang'
> > at the end, then we could call it fortlang (I am certainly open to
> > other suggestions).
> 
> It doesn't have to end with "lang"!
> 
> > Otherwise, we could avoid the issue for now and just name
> > the repository fortran or ffe. I think making them peer projects in
> > reasonable. If we're reusing the built sources from clang, then we
> > just need to setup the makefiles to make sure that clang is always
> > built first.
> 
> It's not a great suggestion, but how about "lfort"?

I like that!

 -Hal

> 
> -Chris



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Hal Finkel
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