The curious incident of the dog that did *not* bark in the night.
Jose E. Marchesi
jemarch@gnu.org
Sat May 30 21:21:26 GMT 2026
Hello Paul.
> I upgraded a system to Ubuntu 26-04 LTS today and added ga68. As
> expected, preliminary tests worked just fine. I then examined the
> documentation in its info format.
>
> As far as I can tell, there is no documentation as to what is *not*
> implemented in this release. Nothing about PAR clauses. The semaphore
> operators section, though present, has no content. Nothing about
> FORMAT. Nothing about formatted transput. There may be other material
> for which I did not search. I fully understand why the documentation
> does not cover these subjects. No-one outside this mailing list is
> likely to know what is missing from the full language.
>
> I suggest that documentation be added, in a fairly prominent position,
> as to what is missing. I may be able to create such documentation if
> it were decide to be a Good Thing..
I think it is definitely a good idea to have a section in the manual
detailing what features of the standard language are still to be
implemented in GCC.
If you can prepare a patch, I will for sure install it.
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