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Re: [patch, fortran] Unformatted array IO performance improvement
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:26:45PM +0300, Janne Blomqvist wrote:
> :ADDPATCH fortran:
>
> Ok, here is yet another updated version of the patch. The most
> significant difference compared to previous versions is that the
> transfer_array library entry point now has a second argument 'charlen'
> which specifies the length of the characters in case the type is
> character. For non-character types the frontend just generates a
> constant which is not used. This extra argument is needed because the
> charlen which is stored in the descriptor is clobbered if charlen >
> 2**24. It also makes it possible to support non-8-bit charset later on
> if we wish.
This is OK for mainline.
Again, thanks a lot! This should pretty much lay PR 16339 and 21820
to rest (maybe you could mention them in the ChangeLog).