From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:38:12 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 04/14] gcc: fix Fortran support In-Reply-To: <87eh8pkd53.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1378138000-12739-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1378138000-12739-5-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <87eh8pkd53.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20130916173812.5c424599@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Peter Korsgaard, On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 23:07:04 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote: > I wonder if we shouldn't deprecate fortran (and objc) support and get > rid of them. Is there really a use case for them? Any interesting sw > that needs them? I have no idea. I believe Objective-C is completely useless. However, I believe Fortran *might* be useful for some scientific applications that could be used on embedded devices. But the fact that no-one ever complained about our Fortran support being broken (the runtime library was never copied to the target) is a fairly strong indication that nobody is using this. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com