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Re: Arrays of strings
- From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- To: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:51:41 -0800
- Subject: Re: Arrays of strings
- References: <200402051636.44829.paul@codesourcery.com>
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 04:36:44PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> Is anyone working on arrays of strings? I can't remember if anyone has said
> they are.
>
> AFAICT this is the single biggest thing that is preventing many programs from
> building. I'd like to try and get this working before tree-ssa is merged into
> mainline (ie. not in not many weeks). This should then allow us to
> demonstrate that gfortran will be able compile significant programs (eg.
> lapack and the SPEC benchmarks).
>
> So, if anyone has done any work in this are, please speak up now. Otherwise
> I'm likley to start working in this area pretty soon.
>
I'm not working in this area, but I've been meaning to ask who is
working on what? I have very limited free time and very limited
compiler writing skills, but recent events have spurned my interests
into actually trying to pick any low hanging fruit.
ISTR, that you made a comment several months ago that the handling of
CHARACTER types would need to be rewritten to deal with COMMON and
EQUIVALENCE. Is this still the intent with array of strings work?
--
Steve