Bumping of libgfortran major version number and git

[Jerry DeLisle]

On 10/10/2016 10:23 AM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 09:09:46AM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
>>
>> I plan to submit a patch for approval that will bump the
>> libgfortran version number and do a few cleanup things.
>> I have the impression that we have a consensus on this.
>> I think it should be done before GCC 7 release.
> 
> Hopefully, Janne chimes in.  I believe he hasi/had thought about
> how to go about addressing some of the issues listed on the wiki.
> 
>>
>> I also think the fortran-dev branch is very close to a clean
>> merge with trunk.  Of course I could be mistaken (IMHO)
>>
> 
> I haven't followed fortran-dev for a few years now.  I thought
> development on the array descriptor reform was stalled at adding
> in extent.
> 
Tobias and Paul have been bringing descriptor change alive on fortran-dev. There
are a handful of regressions, some of which are coarray related.

Jerry