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Re: PR fortran/19269 (partial fix): Lengths of reshaped arrays
[dropping gcc-patches from the distribution list]
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:18:35PM +0200, Paul Thomas wrote:
> Indeed, you can drop the character length arguments for intrinsic
> functions and they all work fine. I tested this and it works for each
> and every case.
> However, Paul B did not like it, on consistency grounds, and so the
> second solution is the preferred one. I discussed it with Thomas
> Koenig, who is our expert on this part of the library; I am not sure
> whether he has put the job in his own queue or was assuming that I would
> do it!
I was waiting for the definition of the calling sequence to do
the actual implementation work :-)
Richard, if you want to tackle this, please go ahead. It should be
a fairly trivial job to modify write reshape_character() etc, given
that they can be almost exact copies of the corresponding *_generic
routines.
Thomas