Hi, we (Octave maintainers in Debian) currently have a problem with GNU Octave, related to gfortran. Some important libraries (ATLAS, refblas, lapack, ...) are compiled using g77, whereas we switched to gfortran. We are now facing http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20178 My question: from the viewpoint of the gcc maintainers, what is the preferred solution: a) We switch back to g77 or b) We use gfortran with the -ff2c option Thanks Thomas