Talk:G95

The last paragraph appears to just be a rumor, mentioned in a newsgroup. Why should Wikipedia be repeating this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.17.69.60 (talk) 16:26, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * This certainly is valuable information to anybody evaluating their choices in compilers and it's unlikely that there's going to be a press release concerning g95's demise, so how would you proceed? 77.13.173.216 (talk) 21:04, 2 February 2011 (UTC)


 * BTW I just randomly went to g95.sf.net and realized that it's a year without news today. I think we can call it dead. 138.246.44.236 (talk) 12:42, 17 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I went to www.g95.org today (December 11,2011) and found out that it says "returning soon". When/if the site resumes operation, I will report it here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.202.184.184 (talk) 21:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Compatibility with Mac OS X
Hi. Can someone please explain me why my last edit (01:04, 1 June 2014‎) has been reverted as STik? The statement on the current version of the article "A stable version 0.93 was released in October 2012,[2] which does not support modern Mac OS X operating systems." is simply wrong. I mean I use g95 on my Mac OS X 10.8.5 every day… I thought correcting this would be an important information for the community? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.217.40.222 (talk)

G95 Quirks
In general g95 used h/w instructions for 64-bit arithmetic. However, if 4-byte variables were promoted with the -r8/d8 compiler switches, arithmetic was done via its libraries, and was 3X slower. I've yet to find any such quirks in gfortran. g95 was a big improvement over g77, but now gfortran should be used instead. A gotcha for many users is that standard arithmetic variables are still 4-bytes even on so-called 64-bit Intel CPUs. (The cpus are really dual 32/64 bit and there is no default word size.)14.202.191.34 (talk) 12:22, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

G95.org on November 2017
I just looked briefly at G95.org and see 32-bit and 54-bit binaries for general Linux, specific builds for Debian (and probably for Debian-dependent offshoots such as Ubuntu), Windows, CYGWIN, x86 and PowerPC OSX (Mac), FreeBSD and Solaris.

Separately, I checked out PathScale and find no link between them and Andy Vought. I did find a list of current PathScale employees at. Andy Vought isn't listed. -- motorfingers : Talk 20:26, 22 November 2017 (UTC)