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LLVM 20's Great Fortran Language Support With Flang

([LLVM] 27 Minutes Ago LLVM 20 + Flang)


With the [1]newly-released LLVM 20.1 compiler stack among the many changes throughout the massive codebase is [2]renaming the "flang-new" compiler just to "flang" . This new Flang compiler front-end has matured quite well over the years to providing robust and reliable Fortran language support within the confines of the LLVM toolchain.

In marking the LLVM 20 stable release and the milestone of flang-new renamed to flang, the LLVM Project blog has put out a blog post outlining all of the accomplishments for this modern Flang Fortran compiler.

Thanks to the work of NVIDIA, Arm, the US National Laboratories, and others, this modern Flang compiler has evolved very well into being a viable and full-featured open-source Fortran compiler.

Those interested in all of the fine details around this new "Flang" compiler in LLVM 20+ can read all about it on the [3]LLVM.org blog .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-20.1-Released

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Flang-New-To-Flang

[3] https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2025-03-11-flang-new/



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The Worst Jury
A murder trial at Manitoba in February 1978 was well advanced, when
one juror revealed that he was completely deaf and did not have the
remotest clue what was happening.
The judge, Mr. Justice Solomon, asked him if he had heard any
evidence at all and, when there was no reply, dismissed him.
The excitement which this caused was only equalled when a second
juror revealed that he spoke not a word of English. A fluent French
speaker, he exhibited great surprised when told, after two days, that he
was hearing a murder trial.
The trial was abandoned when a third juror said that he suffered
from both conditions, being simultaneously unversed in the English language
and nearly as deaf as the first juror.
The judge ordered a retrial.
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"