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Re: [Bug fortran/52846] [F2008] Support submodules - part 2/3 - redux


See any dictionary for the definition of 'old'. :-)

Last time I used VMS in 1990i, and upgrading to 
newer versions of software on the systems required 
a few hurdles to clear.

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 02:13:54PM -0700, Douglas B Rupp wrote:
> VMS hasn't had a 3 character filename extension limit since before 
> VAX/VMS version 4.0 was released in 1984.
> 
> On 07/16/2015 01:41 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 05:08:50PM +0200, Paul Richard Thomas wrote:
> >>
> >> Please find attached a new version of the patch that fixes the
> >> inconsistency with the standard, pointed out by Reinhold. It is weird
> >> but a read the appropriate part of the standard several times and
> >> simply did not pick up the critical information :-)
> >>
> >> Note that the delimiter used for submodule file name is '@', whereas
> >> the internal identifiers is '.'.
> >>
> >> I have added a procedure to cleanup submodules produced by the
> >> testsuite and implemented them in submodule_[1-8].f90. Submodule_8.f90
> >> tests the resolution of the spurious error found by Reinhold.
> >>
> >> Booststraps and regtests on FC_21/x86_64 - OK for trunk?
> >>
> >
> > Patch looks ok to me.  One item I wonder if we need to care
> > about is old filesytems (FAT) or operating systems (VMS) with
> > a 3 character file extension limit.
> >

-- 
Steve


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