[PATCH, Fortran] DEC Compatibility: Default missing exponents to 0 with -fdec

[Paul Richard Thomas]

Dear Fritz,

I want to echo Steve's thanks and his request that you stick around
and help us out.

Best wishes

Paul

On 3 November 2016 at 19:16, Steve Kargl
<sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 02:11:20PM -0400, Fritz Reese wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle@charter.net> wrote:
>> > On 10/26/2016 07:14 AM, Fritz Reese wrote:
>> >>
>> >> All,
>> >>
>> >> Attached is a patch to the GNU Fortran front-end and runtime library
>> >> (libgfortran) which accepts real numbers with missing exponents as if
>> >> '0' was given as the exponent when the compile flag -fdec is given,
>> >> for further compatibility with legacy compilers.
>> >>
>> >
>> > This is OK, thanks.
>> >
>> > Jerry
>> >
>>
>> Many thanks to you and Steve for all your help with the patches! I
>> think these extensions will make many people happy.
>>
>
> I agree some people will be happy with the extensions.  Now
> that your done with DEC extensions and since you're familiar
> with gfortran internals, perhaps you'll stick around and
> peck at the gfortran bugs in bugzilla.  There are only 847
> bugs at last count.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the contributions and tahnks for your
> patience with the review process.
>
> --
> Steve



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