IRC Meeting and #gfortran

[Jerry DeLisle]

Bud Davis wrote:
>   
>  
> 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.  
> 
You got a few here!