Re: gfortran planning meeting

[Paul Thomas <paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr>]

Steve,
> Looking at your table above, 2 PM PST works for me on Saturday
> (kids soccer games occupy the AM).  I'll be on IRC at that time.
>   
I cannot make it today but that would work most Saturdays.  If you are 
going to meet today, I will try to join you later on.

Just a thought; maybe, rather than one big jamboree meeting, we should 
have a regualr slot on #gcc?
> Agenda Items:
>
> 1) Smashing bugs.
>   
Yes,  indeed - some kind of informal plan would be nice.
> 2) Integration of ISO C BINDING when available.  FX tells me that
>    it is a huge patch, so many eyes will be needed.
>   
The approach to integrating intrinsic modules needs to be talked through.
> 3) Updating the manual (I know that this needs works even with
>    Brooks and Daniel's recent efforts).
> 4) Others?
>   
Reform of array descriptors to cope with stride in bytes not being 
modulo the size of the type.

What happened/is happening to the work to change to C type arrays?
> I personally hope to write the needed mpfr to gmp and gmp to mpfr
> bitwise copy patch that pault has asked me to look into.  This
> should help fix the last TRANSFER bug.
>   
Great! I think that there is probably equal division of labour there; 
between the numerics and the marshalling of the constructors.

Cheers

Paul