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  This is part of the GCC manual.
  For copying conditions, see the copyright.rst file.

.. _introduction:

Introduction
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.. index:: Introduction

This manual documents the internals of :command:`gfortran`, 
the GNU Fortran compiler.

.. only:: development

  .. warning::
    This document, and the compiler it describes, are still
    under development.  While efforts are made to keep it up-to-date, it might
    not accurately reflect the status of the most recent GNU Fortran compiler.

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.. The following duplicates the text on the TexInfo table of contents.

At present, this manual is very much a work in progress, containing 
miscellaneous notes about the internals of the compiler.  It is hoped
that at some point in the future it will become a reasonably complete
guide; in the interim, GNU Fortran developers are strongly encouraged to
contribute to it as a way of keeping notes while working on the 
compiler.