Infamous PR fortran/19925

[Richard Guenther]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Paul Richard Thomas
<paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Steve Kargl
> <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>> Well, I spent some time last week thinking about PR
>> fortran/19925 and have decided that the best option
>> may be to punt.  Consider the somewhat far fetched
>> but legal Fortran,
>
> I concur with you completely on this.  I have visited this PR on one
> or two occasions and have failed to come up with any better
> alternative.  Maybe a warning like that at the head of module files
> should be emitted? :-)

Are you really required to expand these declarations at compile-time
(Yes, I see these are PARAMETERS, but ...)?  Otherwise I would suggest
to promote them (and dependent parameters) to static storage that is
runtime-initialized.

Richard.