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[Bug fortran/45170] [F2003] allocatable character lengths
- From: "boschmann at tp1 dot physik.uni-siegen.de" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:05:32 +0000
- Subject: [Bug fortran/45170] [F2003] allocatable character lengths
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- References: <bug-45170-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45170
--- Comment #23 from Hans-Werner Boschmann <boschmann at tp1 dot physik.uni-siegen.de> 2011-08-26 10:05:32 UTC ---
Is there any chance that gfortran 4.7.0 will support allocatable character
lengths? Using fortran for text processing has been painful since time
immemorial and this little feature is a huge leap indeed.
Unlike iso_varying_string you can combine allocatable characters to all other
built-in features of fortran like print *,string. Additionally, as soon as it
is allocated, you can assign it to a non-allocatable dummy characters so no one
but the supplier has to care about whether it is dynamic or not. That's why it
is much more powerful than iso_varying_string.