Re: removing f77 support from PETSc?

[Mehdi Bostandoost <mbostandoust@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

thats a good idea.

Since you want to move to f90 ,it would be great if you could design new f90 function interfaces,in a way that they are capable of type argument checking as well.

 

mehdi

Barry Smith <bsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since there are two seemingly ok free f90 compilers is there any 
> reason for PETSc to continue
> to support f77 or should we remove this support, for example change 
> VecGetArrayF90() to VecGetArray()
> etc and combine the *.h and *.h90 files?
>
> I think so.
>
>
> Should we go further and move most of the header code (parmeters, 
> common blocks etc) into
> Fortran modules and just put the few things in include files that 
> cannot go into modules like
> #define PetscScalar real8
> etc?
>
> Seems reasonable also to
>  me.
>
> Barry

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