Trunk in Stage 3.

[Steve Kargl]

Paul,

In truth, I missed the original announcement.  Stumbled acrossed
it today, and thought I should bring it to everyone's attention.

I knew about your PDT effort and Jerry told me on IRC (on Sat.?)
that he was working out the details for DTIO.  Concerning the
array descriptor reform, I recall Tobias indicated that the 
fortran-devel branch had a 90-95% complete implementation.
Unfortunately, its that last 5-10% of effort that is the hard part!

As you may have guessed from my recent uptick in fixing bug reports,
I knew that 6.0 stage 3 was coming.  In addition, Gerhard Steinmetz
has been submitting a number of bugs that sit in my wheel house.  So,
I was simply started to attack the issues I thought I could fix.

Just finished a patch for PR 43966. :-)

Bugzilla (via the gfortran wiki) shows 805 bug reports for Fortran.
I'm hoping a call-to-arms will encourage others to burn any spare
cycles on PRs.  Yeah, I know.  What's a spare cycle as I only closed
1 PR last year! :-(

-- 
steve

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:53:25AM +0100, Paul Richard Thomas wrote:
> Dear Steve,
> 
> Yes, I did miss it. The deferred character length fix became more than
> a little bit obsessive in nature, after I picked it up, and I ignored
> nearly everything else that was going on.
> 
> I have spent quite some time in the last few months, trying to
> engineer a working schema for parameterized derived types. I think
> that I have a solution but (i) it will be a fairly monumental
> undertaking; and (ii) It will be the sort of addition that is
> completely out of line with stage 3. On the bright side, this gives me
> a reasonable amount of time to get it right. The submodule work went
> this way too. I had been toying with it, when stage 3 of 5 branch
> arrived. Although, what I did at that time was entirely wrong headed,
> the process of thinking it through meant that implementation went
> rather quickly.
> 
> Jerry has been working away on user-defined derived-type IO. I had
> already undertaken to help him out with this but have fallen short on
> that (Sorry, Jerry!). Jerry and I will work together to see if it can
> be rolled out on a short timescale.
> 
> I have a patch for recursive, allocatable derived-type components more
> or less ready to go. I'll see if I can submit it in the next 48 hours.
> Of its nature, I believe that it will be save, even for stage 3; ie.
> to trigger it requires that such a derived type be declared and the
> patch is entirely ring fenced by statements along the lines "if this
> component is allocatable and of the same type as the parent derived
> type, do such-and-such".
> 
> Apart from these two new features, I have loads of bugs to work on!
> The oldest concern pointers to components of derived type arrays. I
> had hoped to introduce the array descriptor reform but just have not
> had the time - it's another rather monumental task! Since it is, to my
> knowledge, the only non-compliance with F95, I will submit the kludgy
> solution that I have been avoiding.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 17 November 2015 at 02:13, Steve Kargl
> <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > If you missed the announcement, trunk is now in Stage 3.
> >
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2015-11/msg00075.html
> >
> > This means bugfixing and no new features unless the
> > new feature has been previously submitted for review.
> >
> > So, who has outstanding patches needing reviews and
> > who wants to jump on the squashing of old bug reports?
> >
> > --
> > Steve
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's
> too dark to read.
> 
> Groucho Marx

-- 
Steve