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Re: [Mingw-users] GCC 4.3.0 20080502 (alpha) Released - Please?help us test it!




On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:55:26PM +0200, Mathias Fröhlich wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 May 2008 12:45, Bob Rossi wrote:
> > With that said, I am thankful that this work is being done, and, I hope
> > you feel confident that you are making the right decision. I am not.
> 
> Well, what you also get with gcc-4* is a fortran95 compiler on a windows 
> system.
> ... I expect that to be working on win32!(?)
> This might be a feature that is worth?
> 
> ... so as almost everywhere, a coin has even more than two sides :)

Sure, let me say this, I have read in the past that a compiler writer
has 2 responsibilities, and they are temporal. The first is, to make 
the compiler work. The second is, to make the optimizations fast. 
I think that in this case, the wagon is being put in front of the horse.

Bob Rossi

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