what will get backported?

[Jerry DeLisle]

Jack Howarth wrote:
>     I am still a little confused on what will in fact get backported
> from trunk to the 4.1 branch for gfortran. It sounds like we are on
> the verge of some quite significant performance improvements for array
> handling. Will these be trapped in the trunk or will they actually 
> make it into 4.1.1? Unless changes are required outside of the gfortran
> and libgfortran directories, I would hope these changes would be
> permitted. Thanks in advance for any clarifications.
>              Jack
> 
I plan to push all library I/O fixes eventually to 4.1 branch.  On some of these 
we wait a while to make sure we do not introduce further regressions.  They get 
tested first on 4.2.

If a patch implements a new feature, thats a different story.

Jerry