[cfe-dev] Clang should natively support fortran

[Stephen Canon via cfe-dev]

On Jun 22, 2016, at 5:54 PM, C Bergström via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> 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.

Linear algebra makes the world go round.  LAPACK in particular is used in all sorts of places one might not expect at first, and AFAIK the CLAPACK distribution is frozen at 3.2.1 vs (Fortran) LAPACK at 3.6.1.

– Steve
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