+2004-03-21 Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
+
+ * g77.texi (Aligned Data): Remove obsolete paragraph including a
+ broken link.
+ (Floating-point Errors): Remove links to http://www.validgh.com/
+ which was "hijacked".
+ (Language): Fix link to Fortran books.
+ (Projects): Remove obsolete paragraph including a broken link to
+ ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/g77/projects/.
+ (Trouble): Remove obsolete paragraph including a broken link to
+ ftp://alpha.gnu.org/g77.plan.
+
+ * invoke.texi (Overall Options): Remove broken reference to
+ rat7.uue (which was of dubious copyright status anyways).
+
+ * root.texi (www-burley): Fix URL.
+
2004-02-29 Roger Sayle <roger@eyesopen.com>
* parse.c (ffe_parse_file): Handle the case that main_input_filename
@setfilename g77.info
@set last-update 2003-05-13
-@set copyrights-g77 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003
+@set copyrights-g77 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004
@include root.texi
@cindex textbooks
(If you need a text on Fortran,
a few freely available electronic references have pointers from
-@uref{http://www.fortran.com/fortran/Books/}. There is a `cooperative
+@uref{http://www.fortran.com/F/books.html}. There is a `cooperative
net project', @cite{User Notes on Fortran Programming} at
@uref{ftp://vms.huji.ac.il/fortran/} and mirrors elsewhere; some of this
material might not apply specifically to @command{g77}.)
@command{gcc}, and some of the relevant operating systems
(such as GNU/Linux).
-@cindex alignment testing
-@cindex testing alignment
-A package that tests the degree to which a Fortran compiler
-(such as @command{g77})
-aligns 64-bit floating-point variables and arrays
-is available at @uref{ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/g77/align/}.
-
@node Prefer Automatic Uninitialized Variables
@subsection Prefer Automatic Uninitialized Variables
missing features that are too much work to add, and some are places
where people's opinions differ as to what is best.
-To find out about major bugs discovered in the current release and
-possible workarounds for them, see
-@uref{ftp://alpha.gnu.org/g77.plan}.
-
(Note that some of this portion of the manual is lifted
directly from the @command{gcc} manual, with minor modifications
to tailor it to users of @command{g77}.
Floating-Point Arithmetic', Computing Surveys, 23, March 1991, pp.@:
5-48.
An online version is available at
-@uref{http://docs.sun.com/},
-and there is a supplemented version, in PostScript form, at
-@uref{http://www.validgh.com/goldberg/paper.ps}.
+@uref{http://docs.sun.com/}.
Information related to the IEEE 754
floating-point standard by a leading light can be found at
The supplement to the PostScript-formatted Goldberg document,
referenced above, is available in HTML format.
-See `Differences Among IEEE 754 Implementations' by Doug Priest,
-available online at
-@uref{http://www.validgh.com/goldberg/addendum.html}.
+See `Differences Among IEEE 754 Implementations' by Doug Priest.
This document explores some of the issues surrounding computing
of extended (80-bit) results on processors such as the x86,
especially when those results are arbitrarily truncated
If you want to contribute to @command{g77} by doing research,
design, specification, documentation, coding, or testing,
the following information should give you some ideas.
-More relevant information might be available from
-@uref{ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/g77/projects/}.
@menu
* Efficiency:: Make @command{g77} itself compile code faster.
-@c Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
+@c Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the G77 manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file g77.texi.
@ignore
@c man begin COPYRIGHT
-Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
+Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
Ratfor source code, which must be preprocessed by the @command{ratfor}
command, which is available separately (as it is not yet part of the GNU
Fortran distribution).
-One version in Fortran, adapted for use with @command{g77} is at
-@uref{ftp://members.aol.com/n8tm/rat7.uue} (of uncertain copyright
-status). Another, public domain version in C is at
+A public domain version in C is at
@uref{http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/prof/ratfor.shar.2}.
@end table