Close a few enhancements as WONTFIX

[Jerry DeLisle]

François-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been looking at our list of requested enhancements, and there are
> a few that I think are not worth keeping open. Here's the list, along
> with reasons why I think we should close them. They have a common
> trait, however: most of them are old or seldom-used extensions for
> which a standard construct is now available. By declaring them
> WONTFIX, we make the choice to say: "we don't intend to add this
> feature in the future". It doesn't mean that a patch adding it would
> be necessarily rejected, but we don't think developers and maintainers
> should spend time on it.
> 
> Please comment on the following list, even if only to support the
> closing of these PRs without further arguments. If you think of other
> enhancement PRs that could be fixed in the same way, please tell! If
> you'd like to keep some or all of them open, please say so! If you
> think this whole "try to get a consensus on things we don't want to
> do" idea is crap, please flame it!
> 
> Now, the list:
> 
>  -- 26305 "No support for non-standard CARRIAGECONTROL, DEFAULTFILE,
> DISPOSE and RECORDTYPE"
>  -- 25271 "gfortran fails to pad lines in format statements to 72
> characters": non-standard, a regression wrt g77, probably needs quite
> some work to implement; not worth it, I think.
>  -- 29240 "optional argument for signal intrinsic not supported":
> there is an inconsistency between the g77 (and gfortran) SIGNAL
> extension and the way it's done in other commercial compilers. This is
> a corner case of an extension, and there now are standard ways of
> doing this, so we shouldn't bother; even the reporter says so ;-)
>  -- 29784 "Converting logical <-> integer in IO": not worth the pain;
> we should simply document that logical/integer conversion isn't
> supported in I/O.
>  -- 31256 "Reading from /dev/zero hangs": All other compilers I could
> test do crazy things when reading from /dev/zero (segfault,
> exponential memory consumption, hanging, absurd runtime error); not
> worth bothering
> 
> 
> FX
> 
I agree.

Jerry