Consolidating format checking - a 4.7 concept

[Jerry DeLisle]

On 09/25/2010 04:41 AM, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Jerry DeLisle wrote:
>> I am thinking about consolidating format checking between FE and runtime. I
>> would like to define a work function that can be called by the FE at compile
>> time and likewise used at runtime.
>
> While I like the idea, I do not see yet how this could be best done. At least by
> default settings, the FE is compiled for $HOST and libgfortran for $TARGET -
> thus one cannot easily call libgfortran functions to do the checking. However, I
> am sure that's solvable.
>
My first thought was to just have a common included file in gcc/fortran.  It 
gets compiled in the frontend and compiled into the library.  Maintained in one 
place and used in two.

Jerry