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Re: Bumping of libgfortran major version number and git
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Steve Kargl
<sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 09:09:46AM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
>>
>> I plan to submit a patch for approval that will bump the
>> libgfortran version number and do a few cleanup things.
>> I have the impression that we have a consensus on this.
>> I think it should be done before GCC 7 release.
>
> Hopefully, Janne chimes in. I believe he hasi/had thought about
> how to go about addressing some of the issues listed on the wiki.
I'm a bit scared of the ABI bump because I fear we will run out of
time fixing all the issues on the wiki page. Then again, it seems
unlikely that we'll get massively more manpower in the future, and
somebody has to do the work to keep fortran-dev in sync with the
master branch as well. So I guess if the array descriptor rework is
done (I haven't followed fortran-dev myself lately so I have no
relevant opinion here) I'd say lets merge it, and try to fix the most
pressing ones of the list on the wiki page. At least changing the
character length type from int to size_t breaks the ABI and is quite
impossible to do later on without an ABI break, but the change itself
should be relatively simple. I haven't been involved in the OOP work,
so I cannot really say much about the various OOP kludges that should
be removed and how much work that is.
--
Janne Blomqvist