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Re: reworking intrinsic procedures
- From: FX Coudert <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
- To: Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct dot lsu dot edu>
- Cc: Daniel Franke <franke dot daniel at gmail dot com>, gfortran List <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 06:04:17 +0100
- Subject: Re: reworking intrinsic procedures
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We have a code which supports using e.g. integer*8 as the "default"
for many variables. Requiring the user to convert arguments to the
default integer kind first would be annoying. Having the compiler
convert the arguments to the default integer kind would be fine,
since -- likely -- the implementation of the intrinsic would do
that anyway internally.
Two more things I should have said in my previous mail:
* Due to the early release of 4.2.0, it will be a 4.3-only work,
as it will change library ABI
* As it will probably require to write code for translation of
each intrinsic in trans-intrinsics.c, it's probably a good time to
also think about passing the INTENT(IN) arguments of these intrinsics
by value, instead of by reference. It will help the compiler by
reducing the number of adressable variables.
FX