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Re: [gfortran, patch] Fix -ff2c type mismatches
- From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- To: Tobias Schl?ter <tobias dot schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de>
- Cc: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:07:19 -0800
- Subject: Re: [gfortran, patch] Fix -ff2c type mismatches
- References: <20061217202108.439rm1x79c048c8k@webmail.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 08:21:08PM +0100, Tobias Schl?ter wrote:
>
> f2c calling conventions require that a scalar default REAL function
> actually returns the C type double. Our current implementation makes
> the function symbol's backend_decl of type double, which in the case
> of no explicit RESULT variable leads to all kinds of type mismatches.
> This patch fixes this, by only making the function REAL*8, not the
> RESULT variable, and then converting the result variable to REAL*8
> when passing it to the function result.
>
> Built and tested on i386-darwin, this passes the testsuite except for
> the failures which are due to PR29516. Ok?
>
OK.
Note, this bootstrapped and passed regression testing on x86_64-*-freebsd.
Tobi, this might be considered a regression with respect to g77
(although I believe g77 did not support RESULT). I'll leave it
to your discretion whether to backport to the 4.2 branch.
--
Steve