Author: Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to replyPhillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply Date: Sep 19, 2008 02:32
>> I think the typical way one gets deeply involved with gfortran
>> development is as follows:
>
> I'm interested in seeing gfortran ported to another operating
> system. I'm assuming that gfortran itself is written in C or
> some variant of C, which means a prerequisite is having a C
> compiler for that operating system, but as far as I know, the
> available version of the gnu C compiler is too old. Perhaps
> someone can list the steps necessary to port gfortran to
> another operating system.
Shouldn't porting it be trivial? That is, just compile and go? Or is
not everything implemented in the source code of the compiler, but
instead makes use of system calls etc?
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