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Re: [Patch, fortran] PR37577 - [meta-bug] change internal array descriptor format for better syntax, C interop TR, rank 15
- From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- To: Janne Blomqvist <blomqvist dot janne at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Paul Richard Thomas <paul dot richard dot thomas at gmail dot com>, "fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org" <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:21:15 -0800
- Subject: Re: [Patch, fortran] PR37577 - [meta-bug] change internal array descriptor format for better syntax, C interop TR, rank 15
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 09:59:41PM +0200, Janne Blomqvist wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 9:12 PM, Paul Richard Thomas
> <paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This patch has been triggered by Thomas's recent message to the list.
> > Not only did I start work late relative to stage 3 but debugging took
> > somewhat longer than anticipated. Therefore, to get this committed
> > asap, we will have to beg the indulgence of the release managers and
> > prompt review and/or testing by fortran maintainers. (Dominique has
> > already undertaken to test -m32.)
>
> I think that if we can "guarantee" that we're happy with the current
> ABI for GCC 9 (and hopefully 10, 11, ...?) we have a quite strong case
> for committing it now. But if anybody if planning on doing some
> ABI-breaking work in the foreseeable future then maybe we should wait
> until GCC 9 stage1 opens. Anybody with such plans?
>
I don't have any plans to break the ABI in 9.0. OTOH, if the
patch isn't included in 8.0, then we know that the ABI will be
broken for 9.0. I think we should shoot for stabilizing the
ABI by including this in 8.0.
--
Steve