[Patch, fortran-dev] ALLOCATE statements with CLASS variables

[Paul Richard Thomas]

Janus,

> Maybe I will just commit the patch in the attached form today, and
> take care of the remaining problems later.

I think that would be a good idea.

> Other than that, I can think of no real alternative to a full vtable
> implementation (as Paul suggested).
>
> Err, maybe one: Extending our CLASS container, to hold not only
> "$data" and "$vindex", but also an additional field called "$size",
> which would mean 'the size of the $data field'. Question is whether
> we'll need a vtable anyways.

I think that we do need vtables but not before the end of stage 1.

Cheers

Paul