[Patch, Fortran] OOP: merging fortran-dev to trunk?

[Paul Richard Thomas]

Dear Janus,

> Thanks everybody, but first and foremost: Thanks Paul, for
> constructing a great OOP implementation for gfortran! (He really was
> the one who did all the conceptual design and constructed the most
> important pieces, while I mostly just did the peasant work ;)

Even in the dictatorship of the proletariat, the peasants do all the
hard work :-)

> Looking forward to an OOP-complete gfortran 4.6,

Yes, me too.  It is my intention to find and fix that irritating bug
in generic procedures, to do some cleaning up and to document this
patch before moving on to more pressing things.  I will try to prevent
bit rot from setting in and to add the improvements that we have
learned about from this effort; most notably in the layout and
handling of vtables in gfortran.

BTW As of this morning fortran-dev appears to be completely broken.
I did not have time to investigate but let me just say that starting
with a clean tree the passes were in the low hundreds ***sigh***

Paul