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Re: [PATCH, Fortran] gfortran.texi: Update "Standards" section.


Janne Blomqvist wrote:
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 04:29:45PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote:
The attached patch updates the "Standards" section of the manual to say that GNU Fortran "implements" (rather than "aims to implement") the Fortran 95 standard, and notes that support of Fortran 95 means that GFortran can compile virtually all Fortran 90 and Fortran 77 programs as well. In addition, it adds mention of the OpenMP standard and TR 15581

Well, technically the TR is part of F2003 (AFAIK with extremely minor changes), so perhaps that should go into the "implemented F2003 features" section (or whatever it was called). Then again, F95+TR seems to be a fairly popular language both in terms of what other compilers support and what people use, so perhaps we shouldn't hide it away in the F2003 section?

Indeed -- I think it's appropriate to mention it both places, since the TR itself is a standardized extension to F95 (completely independent of F2003), but its contents are also included as a part of F2003.


That's what the present version of the patch does; it puts the mention of the TR in the (new) initial "these are the standards GNU Fortran supports" paragraph, but it also leaves in the more-detailed description of it that already exists in the section on implemented F2003 features.

- Brooks


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