Ping: [Patch, fortran] Bug 68241 - [meta-bug] Deferred-length character - PRs50221, 68216, 63932, 66408, 67674 and 49954

[Steve Kargl]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 07:25:29PM +0100, Paul Richard Thomas wrote:
> 
> Following an email from Dominique to me, I think not. In the course of
> fixing PR49954, I put right the setting of the descriptor dtype. Since
> this gets passed to the IO runtime, I think that this is the reason
> for the difference in behaviour.
> 
> I think that another week of effort should put right gfortran's woes
> with deferred characters. As well as concatenation problems that I
> think I have fixed, parentheses cause instant death :-(
> 

Hi Paul,

I built and tested on both x86_64-*-freebsd and i386-*-freebsd.
All tests passed.

I read through the patch did not raise any red (or what
the heck is he doing here) flags.

OK to commit as this is a step in the right direction in
dealing with deferred character issues.

-- 
Steve