Re: combined patch ping - continued

[Daniel Franke <franke dot daniel at gmail dot com>]

On Wednesday 19 May 2010 18:36:08 Daniel Franke wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 May 2010 06:52:12 Paul Richard Thomas wrote:
> > > PR43665 - annotate library calls, part 1
> > > 
> > >        http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2010-05/msg00124.html
> > 
> > Note subsequent message from Richard - I have not time to understand
> > either what your patch does nor what Richard's comment means :-(
> > Could you explain for Earthlings, please?
> 
> As I understand it: Richard's initial patch introduced a way to annotate
> library function calls with flags wether pointers to arguments are kept
> internally or whether the memory locations passed are written to.
> Eventually, when done properly, this should allow the ME to apply more
> optimizations as it can do now as it has to assume the worst for each
> function call.
> 
> This explanation may not be fully correct, but hopefully close enough to
> have prepared a useful patch for the more obvious calls :)
> 
> > Also, is there a part two?
> 
> There should be a part two, eventually. But not by me as I'm, once more,
> lost in the woods ... lost with trees ... err.

*ping* ?!


And new in the list:
Further improve -Wconversion:
	http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2010-05/msg00229.html


I'll be unavailable for a couple of days starting later this week and would 
like to get this wrapped-up (one way or the other) before.

Thanks

	Daniel