[llvm-dev] Adapting and open-sourcing PGI's Fortran frontend for LLVM

[Chris Lattner via llvm-dev]

> On Nov 13, 2015, at 2:22 PM, Hal Finkel via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have some very good news for everyone interested a production-quality Fortran frontend for LLVM:
> 
> The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and its three national labs have reached an agreement with NVIDIA's PGI division to adapt and open-source PGI's Fortran frontend, and associated Fortran runtime library, for contribution to the LLVM project. PGI is now working on isolating the necessary frontend components from their existing compiler code base and adapting those components to produce LLVM IR for consumption by our existing infrastructure.

This sounds very interesting Hal (and Doug), and I’m glad to hear about it.  I look forward to when more details and code is available,

-Chris