[Patch, fortran, RFC] PR 40958 Reduce size of module files

[Salvatore Filippone]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Janne Blomqvist
<blomqvist.janne@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think that if these three issues were solved, gfortran module
> handling would be good enough for all practical purposes.
>
> PS: Heck, what about a simple and stupid approach for #1: Just read
> the mod file into a big string, and then do the parsing from there?
> Then a rudimentary implementation of #3 would be to just store
> pointers to all the strings we have so far read, and the mod file name
> in order to look it up.
>
That was exactly one of the things I thought about: do the parsing
from an internal file! It's just that I don't know enough to do it
myself.
In the meantime I will try Thomas Koenig's patch asap and be back to you.

Salvatore