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Re: memory ownership for descriptors
Hi again,
Tobias Burnus wrote:
> For gfortran's array descriptor update (see wiki link above)
The following link got lost: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/ArrayDescriptorUpdate
The plan is to change the array descriptor in gfortran - which might
happen during the 4.6 development. The reasons are outlined on the page
above, but in a nut shell: To handle a special case in Fortran 90+, one
needs to change the descriptor - and for some newer features, also more
fields are needed. The change has not been done so far as it will break
the ABI - and, thus, the plan it to do one big change rather than doing
changes step by step (e.g. changing the rank in one version, changing
ulimit into extend in another, etc.)
Tobias
PS: The libgfortran.h file can be viewed, e.g., at
http://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=libgfortran/libgfortran.h