[Fwd: [PATCH, libgfortran] Fix PR26890 SIZE parameter interacts with variable in IO list]

[Paul Thomas]

Steve,

>Without checking the file history, I'd guess that this may
>be from Jakub's thread-safe library work.  The padding would
>provide future growth of the struct while maintaining 
>backwards compatibility.
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This is not apparent from the ChangeLog but I think that you are right.  
Perhaps it might be in order to write a comment in gfortran.h as to how 
16 * sizeof (char *) + 34 * sizeof (int) - sizeof (gfc_offset) came to 
be chosen and what length should be kept for the structure?

Paul