From owner-sc22wg5+sc22wg5-dom8=www.open-std.org@open-std.org Mon Mar 24 22:35:29 2014 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www.open-std.org Received: by www.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id B81473587A7; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:35:29 +0100 (CET) Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from ppsw-40.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-40.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.140]) by www.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 848DA35877F for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:35:28 +0100 (CET) X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.51]:56276) by ppsw-40.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.156]:25) with esmtpa (EXTERNAL:nmm1) id 1WSCWm-0004az-k5 (Exim 4.82_3-c0e5623) for sc22wg5@open-std.org (return-path ); Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:35:28 +0000 Received: from prayer by hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk (hermes.cam.ac.uk) with local (PRAYER:nmm1) id 1WSCWm-0003wS-6d (Exim 4.72) for sc22wg5@open-std.org (return-path ); Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:35:28 +0000 Received: from [87.113.109.128] by old-webmail.hermes.cam.ac.uk with HTTP (Prayer-1.3.5); 24 Mar 2014 21:35:28 +0000 Date: 24 Mar 2014 21:35:28 +0000 From: "N.M. Maclaren" To: "sc22wg5@open-std.org" Subject: Re: [ukfortran] (SC22WG5.5201) (j3.2006) Ballot on draft DTS Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140324212653.DC5CE358781@www.open-std.org> References: <20140312154430.1B7899EB083@www.open-std.org> <20140324133031.CC99D35856F@www.open-std.org> <20140324160849.220FA356F90@www.open-std.org> <20140324204821.77D8535872E@www.open-std.org> <20140324210108.4DBFB3586CD@www.open-std.org> <20140324211451.D220E35876A@www.open-std.org> <20140324212653.DC5CE358781@www.open-std.org> X-Mailer: Prayer v1.3.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk On Mar 24 2014, Keith Bierman wrote: >> >> If we think that commodity hardware and operating system vendors and >> distributors are going to do anything special to help Fortran, we are >> living in cloud cuckoo land. And the vast majority of Fortran users >> use commodity hardware and operating system distributions. >> >> well, x86/64 processors have some support, and I'm pretty sure SGI and >others have ensured that Linux has support at the OS level. Support for what? >Now, I can't claim to have tried to map the proposed facility to these, but >I'd have assumed that members of committee like Bill Long have and I'd >trust their analysis. Would you believe that I have? Or do you not trust my analysis? Have you read N1754? Regards, Nick Maclaren.