That's not a regression – but the manual has to be updated for the TS29113 changes before the 4.8 release – and marking it as regression. Namely, http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Standards.html http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Interoperability-with-C.html http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/TS-29113-status.html Additionally, the F2003 & F2008 status should be updated. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Fortran-2003-and-2008-status.html And, we should consider to also link to the deferred-length string version of ISO Varying strings at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Varying-Length-Character-Strings.html And as always: Read through the whole document – and the internals document – and consider improvements of all kinds.
Author: burnus Date: Thu Feb 7 11:08:20 2013 New Revision: 195845 URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?root=gcc&view=rev&rev=195845 Log: 2013-02-07 Tobias Burnus <burnus@net-b.de> PR fortran/54339 * gfortran.texi (Standards): Mention TS29113. (Varying Length Character): Mention deferred-length strings. (Fortran 2003 Status): Add unlimited polymorphic. (TS 29113 Status): Add TYPE(*) and DIMENSION(..). (C Interop): Update the section about TS29113. Modified: trunk/gcc/fortran/ChangeLog trunk/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi
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