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Re: complex division alogrithm?

On Friday 07 May 2004 21:44, Toon Moene wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
> > On Friday 07 May 2004 20:15, Toon Moene wrote:
> >>Are you sure we have to do this in the Fortran frontend ?  Can't we just
> >>hand complex division as a GENERIC expression to be expanded by GIMPLE ?
> >
> > We need to do constant folding in the frontend. Actual runtime division
> > is left for the GENERIC/GIMPLE to figure out.
>
> Well, strictly speaking, we "do not have to do constant folding" in the
> frontend.  There's nothing in the Fortran Standard(s) that requires
> this.  We only want to do this because it is improves run times.

It is not explicity required, however it is required in practice for 
initialization expressions. Consider as an artificial example:

integer (kind=int((11, 6)/(1, 1))) :: i

Paul
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