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Re: Close a few enhancements as WONTFIX
- From: Walter Spector <w6ws at earthlink dot net>
- To: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:55:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: Close a few enhancements as WONTFIX
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"François-Xavier Coudert" <fxcoudert at gmail dot com> wrote:
> ...
> -- 29240 "optional argument for signal intrinsic not supported":
> there is an inconsistency between the g77 (and gfortran) SIGNAL
> extension and the way it's done in other commercial compilers. This is
> a corner case of an extension, and there now are standard ways of
> doing this, so we shouldn't bother; even the reporter says so ;-)
Note that the POSIX PXF standard defines all the functionality that
he is asking for, via PXFSIGACTION and friends, and more.
> ...
> -- 31256 "Reading from /dev/zero hangs": All other compilers I could
> test do crazy things when reading from /dev/zero (segfault,
> exponential memory consumption, hanging, absurd runtime error); not
> worth bothering
But be sure that things like non-advancing I/O and stream I/O work.
Walter