Re: [gfortran] Add malloc and free intrinsics

[Brooks Moses <bmoses at stanford dot edu>]

François-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> I updated the documentation so that it mentions that Cray pointers are
> not yet supported, so that the example is not working yet; it says
> that the example is for 32-bit systems, and indicates that MALLOC/FREE
> are here to support legacy code, and hints that the Fortran 95
> intrinsics to do memory allocation are ALLOCATE/DEALLOCATE.
>
> I changed the testsuite file so that it uses integer*8, that works on
> both 32- and 64-bit systems.
>
> Any more comments?
[...]
> +@table @asis
> +@item @emph{Description}:
> +Frees memory previously allocated by @code{MALLOC()}. The @code{FREE}
> +intrinsic is an extension intended to be used with Cray pointers, and is
> +provided in @command{gfortran} to allow user to compile legacy code. For
> +new code using Fortran 95 pointers, the memory de-allocation intrinsic is
> +@code{DEALLOCATE}.

The documentation all looks quite good to me, except that I would take 
out the "new" in "For new code...." here (and in the corresponding 
paragraph of MALLOC) -- DEALLOCATE is also the memory de-allocation 
intrinsic for old code using Fortran 95 pointers.  :)

Also, that should be "allow the user" or "allow users", not "allow 
user", here and in MALLOC.

- Brooks