Should I use f18 or flang at this moment?

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F18 is a front-end for Fortran intended to replace the existing front-end in the Flang compiler

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Should I use f18 or flang at this moment? #975

Closed cesss closed 4 years ago

cesss commented 4 years ago

Hi,

Reading the flang and f18 docs, it's not clear to me if the advice is to use flang or f18 at this moment. I had the hope of having f18 merged into LLVM 10, so I was waiting for the LLVM 10 final release. However, considering that it wasn't possible to do the merge before such release, what would be the preferred choice as of today: flang or f18?

The use is mostly CFD source code, for thermodynamics research.

sscalpone commented 4 years ago

F18 does not support code generation yet. Flang is still the choice for executing programs.

cesss commented 4 years ago

Ok, thanks a lot!!