[PATCH] Fortran: ABI for scalar CHARACTER(LEN=1),VALUE dummy argument [PR110360]

[Mikael Morin]

Le 22/06/2023 à 22:23, Harald Anlauf via Fortran a écrit :
> Dear all,
> 
> gfortran's ABI specifies that actual arguments to CHARACTER(LEN=1),VALUE
> dummy arguments are passed by value in the scalar case.  That did work
> for constant strings being passed, but not in several other cases, where
> pointers were passed, resulting in subsequent random junk...
> 
> The attached patch fixes this for the case of a non-constant string
> argument.
> 
> It does not touch the character,value bind(c) case - this is a different
> thing and may need separate work, as Mikael pointed out - and there is
> a missed optimization for the case of actual constant string arguments
> of length larger than 1: it appears that the full string is pushed to
> the stack.  I did not address that, as the primary aim here is to get
> correctly working code.  (I added a TODO in a comment.)
> 
> Regtested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.  OK for mainline?
> 
OK, thanks.

> Thanks,
> Harald
>