Reply to Maxim Abalenkov + a pair of sad reflections

[Saagar Jha]

That’s a rather cold Mac you’ve got there ;)

> On Oct 1, 2024, at 09:36, P. Denti via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Maxim,
> thank you very much for indicating the article on Apple Developer.
> I am final user of Fortran as a  physicist who developed some research software just in Fortran.
> The hardware based on Intel CPU i7 is about nine-years-old, so that I bought a new iMac M3.
> The new software Sonoma, now Sequoia, according to the article have an architecture that is responsible for the signaled failure.
> 
> It is a pity that, attempting to work around the difficulty on Fortran changing gcc port, I found all gcc's  branded as notoriously not working, with the (apparent!) exception of gcc14.
> As a naive user, I now think that problems with Fortran could be overcome with appropriate patches to the linker. But, according to article, the problem is rather old…
> 
> Otherwise inconvenient is the building procedure of gcc and its library: for around an hour the cpu cores temperature is 100-108 Kelvin, on account that no fan is present in iMac ...
> 
> Thank you,
> best wishes,
> Paolo