IRC Meeting and #gfortran

[Bud Davis]

i am not sure this is how
> 5) Record markers.  There was some mention of the
> record marker 
>    issue with gfortran and compatibility with other
> compilers.
>    Thomas Koenig has taken on the bugzilla PR and
> appears to be 
>    making progress.  I think we should make the
> Intel record and
>    subrecord method the default on gfortran with an
> option to
>    permit the current method for backwards
> compatibility.  Note
>    this change will by default break backwards
> compatibility 
>    with previous versions of gfortran; however, I
> think the 
>    benefits of compatibility with many of the
> commercially 
>    available compilers outweighs the merits of
> backwards compatibility.
 
i am on board with this as long as we can add the
string 'record marker' to the spam filter for
fortran@gcc.gnu.org (similar to the work EMACS which
was added recently)

:):)


--bud

p.s.  this was meant to cause a laugh.