[Fortran, Patch] Improve documentation of the non-implemented RECORD STRUCTURE extension
Tobias Burnus
burnus@net-b.de
Mon Mar 11 18:19:00 GMT 2013
Steve Kargl wrote:
> The patch looks ok to me. I wonder if the text should identify the
> vendor that introduced this feature as DEC. For the youngster on the
> list, DEC is the Digital Equipment Corporation.
Thanks for the review.
I think that DEC has invented it, but I am not completely sure – also
IBM's xlf has it (at least nowadays). In any case, I don't think it is
necessary to record the history of the extension in gfortran's manual.
(Actually, who invented the "Cray pointer"? Cray, DEC, or someone else?)
Tobias,
who has used – as undergraduate – "digital" (OSF/1) systems (besides
FreeBSD [soon later converted to Linux] and Compaq's Tru64-Unix Alphas).
(Compaq has bought DEC and renamed the OS, hence, OSF/1 == Tru64. Compaq
itself was later bought by HP. And the DEC/Compaq Fortran compiler team
was bought by Intel.)
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