Gfortran question

[ed at eh3.com (Ed Hill)]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 12:16 -0400, David Lapointe wrote:
> I am using SuSE 10.1 which has gcc/gfortran 4.1.0.  I have some applications 
> which won't compile with the AMD ACML math library ( actually the configure 
> step won't allow). Tech @AMD says don't use gfortran 4.1, but gfortran 4.0 
> will work.
> 
> My question is how to back down to gfortran 4.0 w/o havoc.

Hi David,

The gfortran shipped in GCC 4.0.x is *quite* buggy and is, officially,
just a "technology preview" not meant for production code.  The gfortran
in GCC 4.1.x and later has *many* bug fixes and is much more stable and
capable.  So if there is any way you can avoid 4.0.x then by all means
do so.

BTW -- what errors or problems are you seeing with 4.1.x ?

Ed

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