[LLVMdev] FORTRAN compiler status?

Duncan Sands baldrick at free.fr
Mon May 14 01:34:25 PDT 2007


Hi Duraid,

>     Does anyone know what the latest is w.r.t a FORTRAN front-end for 
> LLVM? Is anyone expecting to have typical f90/f95 programs compiling to 
> LLVM this year, or next? (I'm aware of the "NAG hack" and various other 
> f2c-type approaches, but they give me a strange feeling in my tummy.)

support for Fortran will be much easier once LLVM rebases itself on
gcc 4.2, which I hope will happen within the next few months.  Then it
will probably only need a little tender loving care to spring to life.
However, we need a volunteer to provide that love...

Ciao,

Duncan.



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