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- <p>As soon as <code>gfortran</code> can parse all of the statements correctly,
- it will be in the “larva” state.
- When we generate code, the “puppa” state.
- When <code>gfortran</code> is done,
- we’ll see if it will be a beautiful butterfly,
- or just a big bug....
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- <p>–Andy Vaught, April 2000
- </p></blockquote>
- <p>The start of the GNU Fortran 95 project was announced on
- the GCC homepage in March 18, 2000
- (even though Andy had already been working on it for a while,
- of course).
- </p>
- <p>The GNU Fortran compiler is able to compile nearly all
- standard-compliant Fortran 95, Fortran 90, and Fortran 77 programs,
- including a number of standard and non-standard extensions, and can be
- used on real-world programs. In particular, the supported extensions
- include OpenMP, Cray-style pointers, some old vendor extensions, and several
- Fortran 2003 and Fortran 2008 features, including TR 15581. However, it is
- still under development and has a few remaining rough edges.
- There also is initial support for OpenACC.
- Note that this is an experimental feature, incomplete, and subject to
- change in future versions of GCC. See
- <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OpenACC">https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OpenACC</a> for more information.
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- <p>At present, the GNU Fortran compiler passes the
- <a href="http://www.fortran-2000.com/ArnaudRecipes/fcvs21_f95.html">NIST Fortran 77 Test Suite</a>, and produces acceptable results on the
- <a href="http://www.netlib.org/lapack/faq.html#1.21">LAPACK Test Suite</a>.
- It also provides respectable performance on
- the <a href="http://www.polyhedron.com/fortran-compiler-comparisons/polyhedron-benchmark-suite">Polyhedron Fortran
- compiler benchmarks</a> and the
- <a href="http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/livermore">Livermore Fortran Kernels test</a>. It has been used to compile a number of
- large real-world programs, including
- <a href="http://hirlam.org/">the HARMONIE and HIRLAM weather forecasting code</a> and
- <a href="http://physical-chemistry.scb.uwa.edu.au/tonto/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">the Tonto quantum chemistry package</a>; see
- <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GfortranApps">https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GfortranApps</a> for an extended list.
- </p>
- <p>Among other things, the GNU Fortran compiler is intended as a replacement
- for G77. At this point, nearly all programs that could be compiled with
- G77 can be compiled with GNU Fortran, although there are a few minor known
- regressions.
- </p>
- <p>The primary work remaining to be done on GNU Fortran falls into three
- categories: bug fixing (primarily regarding the treatment of invalid code
- and providing useful error messages), improving the compiler optimizations
- and the performance of compiled code, and extending the compiler to support
- future standards—in particular, Fortran 2003 and Fortran 2008.
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