Re: [Patch, fortran] PR37577 - [meta-bug] change internal array descriptor format for better syntax, C interop TR, rank 15

[Paul Richard Thomas <paul dot richard dot thomas at gmail dot com>]

Hi Jakub,

The lateness is indeed embarrassing but couldn't be helped.

> Given above my preference would be to keep version an int, and
> change rank and type to signed char and attribute to signed short.
> That way there will be no padding on either 32-bit or 64-bit targets,
> and the structure will be at least a little bit smaller.
> How much work would that be to change it in the patch?  I'd expect
> just a few lines in gcc/fortran and few lines in libgfortran...
>
>         Jakub

I can do that this afternoon. It's little more work than changing a
couple of typedefs. There are one or two other, cosmetic changes to
make too.

Thanks

Paul