Issues with compiler flags in gfortran

[Joshua Root]

On 2019-1-23 03:16 , Ken Cunningham wrote:
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> On 2019-01-22, at 2:37 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
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>> I think this issue overall is covered by
>> <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/37846>, and I agree with jeremyhu's
>> assessment there.
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>> - Josh
> 
> Yes, we discussed it there similarly to this email chain. 
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> But Jeremy's solution five years ago was to leave it to gcc to fix.
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> That -- I think -- is just never going to happen.

I think the idea was "fix it in gcc" rather than leave it to the
upstream gcc developers. But it looks like this was already addressed by
cctools providing an 'as' wrapper that uses llvm. The problem is just it
doesn't work right consistently.

- Josh