[Patch, Fortran] PR 41872 - Fixes for allocatable scalars (part 1)

[H.J. Lu]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Tobias Burnus <burnus@net-b.de> wrote:
> Daniel Kraft wrote:
>> Tobias Burnus wrote:
>>> allocatable scalars have several issues. This patch fixes the some of
>>> them. [...]
>> I'm just wondering if that "large" new code block for deallocating
>> allocatable scalars passed to INTENT(OUT) can't be somehow be
>> simplified -- actually, there should already be code to do this for
>> non-scalar allocatables; is it possible to merge this somehow?  But I
>> guess it's not, because stuff is probably too different there.
>
> Committed as Rev. 153795. Thanks for the review. I think it is not easy
> to simplify the code: Large parts are the same both there are enough
> differences that one only trades one kind of ifs with another one.
>
> I think the proper way would be to rewrite some of the allocatable
> handling stuff. One might consider this for 4.6 if GCC gets a new array
> descriptor. Actually, I do not like that the caller and not the callee
> deallocates intent(OUT) variables. I wonder how this should work with
> BIND(C) and the new TR 29113.
>

This may have caused:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41907

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H.J.