Re: F03 C interop..

[Janne Blomqvist <jblomqvi at cc dot hut dot fi>]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:15:39PM -0600, Christopher D. Rickett wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I have followed this list for a few months now, and I have seen some talk 
> about implemented F03 features.  I am particularly interested in the C 
> interoperability section of F03.  Is there currently anyone working on 
> this?

Lars Segerlund did some work on the infrastructure for intrinsic
modules, but that was many months ago and IIRC no patch was ever
submitted. You might want to try to contact Lars and see how far he
got.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2004-10/msg00074.html

> If someone has already begun work on the C interop part of the F03 draft, 
> I would be willing to help them finish what's left.  If no one has 
> started, then I would be willing to start the work myself.  I am new to 
> making changes to gfortran, so any help someone could give me on where to 
> start, or material to look over to better familiarize myself with the 
> compiler implementation details, it would be greatly appreciated.

IMHO C interop would be a quite useful feature, and I believe it will
be warmly welcomed. The first task that must be done before proceeding
with this is the support for intrinsic modules (since the C interop
itself is an intrinsic module).

-- 
Janne Blomqvist