[Fwd: GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2007-08-09)]

[Paul Richard Thomas]

FX,

  ** Formal/actual argument checking for same file procedures, by Paul Thomas **
  ** Revamp of read_module, same usual suspect **

>  I know there hasn't been much comment on your proposed patch for
>  file-wide structures, but I really think it was based on lack of
>  enough technical understanding of what you proposed than from lack of
>  interest. I, for one, think it's a really great way of doing things,
>  but I couldn't actually comment on the technical merit of your patch;
>  although, since you wrote it, I'm sure it's great! ;-)

>  So, the question now is, do you think the timeframe of doing this is
>  compatible with 4.3? After stage 3 begins, we'll have time to fix
>  bugs, but we won't be able to introduce new features any more... It's
>  your call, obviously.

I am so short of time right now that this will not be possible.  Once
the character patch is committed, I will put all my effort into
getting pointers to elements of arrays of derived types and  to
substrings of arrays into being.  I know what to do and it might well
be feasible to get it into 4.3.  With those features in place, we will
have a complete F95 compiler and will be in sight of eliminating all
the serious bugs.

Cheers

Paul

PS I decided to go with the 2nd option discussed with Paul Brook for
implementing whatever these pointers are called, rather than going to
size in bytes.  The rarity of usage of these pointers is not worth the
performance hit in normal indexing.