newbie willing to contribute...

[François-Xavier Coudert]

> The missing intrinsics are the perfect starter project.  FX,
> wasn't your first patch for some missing intrinsics. :-)

Yes it was. And it's still a good source of not-so-expert patches for me :)

> OTOH, I guess at some point we'll run out of missing intrinsics.

It will be happening soon. The only intrinsics left are all a bit hard
to implement, I guess. I'd like to give FSEEK a try, but it takes a
label as argument (it branches there in case of error) and I still
haven't found out how to handle that...

> PMA, don't throw your changes out.  Wait for FX's patch
> and compare what you have done with his patches.  Although
> you can't approve his patch for inclusion into gfortran,
> you can review and offer comments and corrections.  This
> is another way to get involved and start to understand
> the internals of gfortran.

Yes. Another intrinsic which you can implement is LSTAT (both
subroutine and function versions). It should be a little more simple
(not mucking with trans-intrinsic.c too much), and has a library part.
I promise I won't do it (but I will help out if you have questions).

FX