Re: [fortran,patch] Binding label can be any initialisation expression

[FX <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>]

ping

To reinforce the message in my earlier email: we can fine-tune the list of allowed characters in identifiers later, but I’d like to get this patch in already (so it gets large exposure before the 4.10 release).

FX



> Binding label can be any initialisation expression.  Well, only scalar character of the default kind, but still…
> 
> This patch achieves this goal by following the obvious plan, which has not changed since I wrote it in PR 36275 in 2008 :)
> The custom matcher for binding label, in gfc_match_bind_c(), is removed and the generic matcher gfc_match_init_expr() is called, followed by checks that the expression obtained fulfills the constraints of a C identifier.
> 
> So, now is the time to think about PR 38839 (what characters to allow as a binding label): right now, I allow alphadecimals, underscore and dollar. >From the PR comments, it seems like @ and ` might be also allowed for universal-character names, but they are not supported by GCC on platforms I tested right now. Let me know what you think, but I don’t think we should worry to much about it.
> 
> Bootstrapped and regtested on x86_64-apple-darwin13, comes with testcases.
> OK to commit?
> 
> FX
> 
> 
> PS: you may notice I have had some time to hack at gfortran these past few days... it feels good!

Attachment: bind_c.ChangeLog
Description: Binary data

Attachment: bind_c.diff
Description: Binary data