[RFC] Some Fortran manual tweaks

Arjen Markus arjen.markus@wldelft.nl
Mon Sep 22 06:29:00 GMT 2008


Daniel Kraft wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this patch addresses most of the "specific remarks" mentioned by Arjen 
> Markus in comment #0 of PR 37605:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37605
>
> I mostly agree with them, but in some cases changes to the intrinsics 
> documentation made it diverge from the description in the standard; 
> that may or may not be what we want (thinking of EPSILON here).

I just read the description of EPSILON and thought it was not really 
clear what it does - the essence
is that the return value is _not_ negligeable and the original text does 
not stress that in my opinion.
But I do not intend to correct the standard ;).

>
> I've left some @c XXX's in there for things I'm not quite sure about 
> for now.
>
Thanks for taking care of this.

Regards,

Arjen



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