[PATCH][fortran] Rework allocator library interface

[Jack Howarth]

Richard,
    I thought that the reworked allocator was approved to
go into gcc 4.2 branch next week? Won't that eliminate the
problem?
          Jack

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:04:34PM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote:
> 
> I don't think symbol versioning will help retro-actively here, so to
> keep unreleased 4.2 libgfortran working we need to either bump the library
> version number or use new names and continue providing the old ones.
> We can change the function names without providing the old ones which
> will result in linker errors rather than crashes.
> 
> Until the change is backported to the 4.2 branch we have the (bad)
> situation that the two libgfortrans claim to be compatible but are not.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> --
> Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
> Novell / SUSE Labs