http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.fortran/browse_thread/thread/80093a381db184c6/ This interface is needed if one wants pass an array descriptor to C; other vendors have such a documentation as well. It should come with a note that the interface may change between versions. Other compilers have this as well, e.g, http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/docs/flin/main_for/mergedProjects/bldaps_for/common/bldaps_hndl_arrdesc.htm If not for the gfortran documentation, one could add it to gfortran-internal.
PR34742 is also related to documentation of our ABI/calling conventions (whatever the correct term is). I agree we should document them, as well as some other gfortran-specific non-portable stuff like "how do kinds related to integer and floating-point types", and maybe a section expanding on the -ff2c conventions. I think all this would go into a new top-level section of the documentation.
Is this still the same interface nowadays then it was back then? And is a possible new one now maybe documented?
(In reply to Tobias Burnus from comment #0) > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.fortran/browse_thread/thread/ > 80093a381db184c6/ > > This interface is needed if one wants pass an array descriptor to C; other > vendors have such a documentation as well. It should come with a note that > the interface may change between versions. > > Other compilers have this as well, e.g, > http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/docs/flin/main_for/ > mergedProjects/bldaps_for/common/bldaps_hndl_arrdesc.htm Link is dead; here is an archive dot org saved copy of it: http://web.archive.org/web/20100129054945/http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/docs/flin/main_for/mergedProjects/bldaps_for/common/bldaps_hndl_arrdesc.htm > > If not for the gfortran documentation, one could add it to gfortran-internal.