Re: [PATCH] Fold VIEW_CONVERT_EXPR <type, STRING_CST> generated by Fortran FE a lot (PR target/35366)

[Tobias Schlüter <Tobias dot Schlueter at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de>]

Paul Richard Thomas wrote:
> Tobi and Jakub,
>
> > They are not standard Fortran.  Using Hollerith constants this way was the
> > way of encoding strings before there was a Character type in Fortran, so the
> > current behavior is intentional.  Whether there actually is code that uses
> > logicals to encode strings, I can't tell.  I CCed Feng Wang who added the
> > original Hollerith support, and Steve who last modified the testcase.
>
> I am not so sure about that in the case of transfer_simplify_4.f90 -
> we have already had serious amounts of correspondence about it as
> witnessed in PR33759.  What the standard says is:

Yes sorry, I phrased this wrongly, I had intended to only talk about the 
use of Hollerith constants.  But this is moot because due to what both 
Jakub and you rightfully pointed out, LOGICAL will likely have to seize 
being a BOOLEAN_TYPE.  Which in turn will restore the traditional 
Hollerith behavior.  If all goes well.

Cheers,
- Tobi