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Re: [patch,wwwdocs] Add gfortran's 4-byte record markers change to gcc-4.2/changes.html
- From: Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- Cc: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:35:18 +0100
- Subject: Re: [patch,wwwdocs] Add gfortran's 4-byte record markers change to gcc-4.2/changes.html
- References: <457C9C5D.4070200@net-b.de> <457C9CEB.90906@net-b.de> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612281341550.9665@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Hi,
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Thanks, looks good! Please consider Bernhard's comments on the one
> below and go ahead committing this.
>
Did this finally. I also removed it from the GCC 4.3 changelog.
Thanks for reviewing.
Tobias
Index: gcc-4.2/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.2/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -r1.21 changes.html
--- gcc-4.2/changes.html 9 Jan 2007 22:17:48 -0000 1.21
+++ gcc-4.2/changes.html 18 Jan 2007 09:26:33 -0000
@@ -103,6 +103,15 @@
Fortran 2003).</li>
<li>Support for the Fortran 2003 streaming IO extension has been
added.</li>
+ <li>The GNU Fortran compiler now uses 4-byte record markers by default
+ for unformatted files to be compatible with g77 and most other
compilers.
+ The implementation allows for records greater than 2 GB and is
compatible
+ with several other compilers. Older versions of gfortran used 8-byte
+ record markers by default (on most systems). In order to change the
length
+ of the record markers, e.g. to read unformatted files created by older
+ gfortran versions, the <code>
+ <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Runtime-Options.html"
+ >-frecord-marker=8</a></code> option can be used.</li>
</ul>
cvs diff: Diffing gcc-4.3
Index: gcc-4.3/changes.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.3/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -u -r1.21 changes.html
--- gcc-4.3/changes.html 15 Jan 2007 19:49:08 -0000 1.21
+++ gcc-4.3/changes.html 18 Jan 2007 09:26:33 -0000
@@ -153,15 +153,6 @@
>-fexternal-blas</a></code> option has been added, which
generates calls to BLAS routines for intrinsic matrix operations such
as <code>matmul</code> rather than using the built-in algorithms.</li>
- <li>The GNU Fortran compiler now uses 4-byte record markers by default
- for unformatted files to be compatible with g77 and most other
compilers.
- The implementation allows for records greater than 2 GB and compatible
- with several other compilers. Older versions of gfortran used by
default
- 8-byte record markers (on most systems). In order to change length of
- the record markers, e.g. to read unformatted files created by older
- gfortran versions, the <code>
- <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Runtime-Options.html"
- >-frecord-marker=8</a></code> option can be used.</li>
<li>Fortran 2003 support has been extended:
<ul>
<li>Intrinsic statements <code>VOLATILE</code> and
<code>IMPORT</code></li>