You might also want to investigate the Fujitsu compiler for the Sparc architecture. We use the Lahey/Fujitsu compiler with Windows/Intel and have found it to be very robust.
> I'm worring about Sun's Fortran. We've been using Sun Fortran > for years: WorkShop 4 & 5 and Forte 6. And I've been dismayed > by the buggy f90 in the packages. The f90 in WorkShop 4 had > terrible bugs and I couldn't believe that such a big company > as Sun should release such a buggy compiler, but I thought, > "Well, this is their very first F90, so this may happen." > But, with f90 with WorkShop 5, I saw lots of internal compiler > errors; I even saw "Assertion failed" from their (supposedly) > C code. Again I couldn't believe that. I think that was the > first time for me to see an assertion error (assert.h) from > a commercial software product (Maybe I had been too lucky). > Today, I used the f90 in Forte 6 for the first time, and again > had an "Assertion failed" internal error! Argh.
> I've been having the feeling that Sun isn't much interested in > their Fortran compiler(s) any more. Perhaps, it's time to > switch to Fujitsu f90? Does someone know what's going on > in Sun about their f90?
