Re: [PATCH] PR 78534 Change character length from int to size_t

[Bob Deen <Bob dot Deen at jpl dot nasa dot gov>]

> However, this will also affect people doing C->Fortran calls the
> old-fashioned way without ISO_C_BINDING, as they will have to change
> the string length argument from int to size_t in their prototypes.
> Then again, Intel Fortran did this some years ago so I guess at least
> people who care about portability to several compilers are aware.

We do a ton of this (old fashioned c-fortran binding) and changing the string length argument size will have a big impact on us.  We don't use the Intel compiler so we never noticed a change there.

Is there really a use case for strings > 2 GB that justifies the breakage?  I certainly understand wanting to do it "right" but I'm probably not the only one with practical considerations that argue against it if there are no compelling use cases.

Thanks...

-Bob

Bob Deen @ NASA-JPL Multimission Image Processing Lab
Bob.Deen@jpl.nasa.gov