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Re: [Fortran, (RFC) patch] PR49110/51055 Assignment to alloc. deferred-length character vars

From: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
To: Mike Stump <mikestump at comcast dot net>
Cc: Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>, Fortran List <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Paul Richard Thomas <paul dot richard dot thomas at gmail dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:46:12 -0400
Subject: Re: [Fortran, (RFC) patch] PR49110/51055 Assignment to alloc. deferred-length character vars
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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Mike Stump <mikestump@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2012, at 4:49 PM, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Another suggestion from Segher is "_F.", which is both reserve and
>> cannot conflict with C/C++ because identifiers cannot contain ".".
>
> The problem with that are machines that don't like "." in identifiers (aka NO_DOT_IN_LABEL)…  so one just has to be a little careful in using it.

That's a good reason to use "_F".  And NO_DOT_IN_LABEL systems will
not function with the current "." mangling.

- David

References:
- Re: [Fortran, (RFC) patch] PR49110/51055 Assignment to alloc. deferred-length character vars
  - From: David Edelsohn
- Re: [Fortran, (RFC) patch] PR49110/51055 Assignment to alloc. deferred-length character vars
  - From: Tobias Burnus
- Re: [Fortran, (RFC) patch] PR49110/51055 Assignment to alloc. deferred-length character vars
  - From: David Edelsohn
- Re: [Fortran, (RFC) patch] PR49110/51055 Assignment to alloc. deferred-length character vars
  - From: David Edelsohn
- Re: [Fortran, (RFC) patch] PR49110/51055 Assignment to alloc. deferred-length character vars
  - From: Mike Stump

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