[Pkg-scicomp-devel] fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

[Kevin B. McCarty]

George N. White III wrote:

> This transition should not be a tied to gfortran and the gcc toolchain.  When
> the code has to change, it should be made to conform to current standards,
> or in a few years we will doing it all over yet again.  One approach would be
> to adopt the POSX Fortran bindings, the other is to use the current Fortran
> standard.  The former has pxf_getarg(), while the latter provides:
> 
> call GET_COMMAND_ARGUMENT(iarg, buf, ilen, ierror)
> 
> There was an open source implementation of the POSIX fortran bindings
> by Ron Shepard at ANL, and at least one independent implementation has
> been mentioned on c.l.f.
> 

What do you suggest for *C/C++* code that, for whatever reason, needs to
call GETARG() or whatever the modern equivalent is from a FORTRAN library?

best regards,

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