[Bug fortran/30372] various intrinsics do not diagnose invalid argument kinds

[sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu]

------- Comment #8 from sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu  2007-02-23 21:02 -------
Subject: Re:  various intrinsics do not diagnose invalid argument kinds

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:42:03PM -0000, burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
> 
> 
> > various intrinsics do not diagnose invalid argument kinds
> The question is what is the right solution:
> a) Only allow certain kinds
> b) Allowing all kinds and doing the conversion/providing the needed functions.
> 
> (a) is in the spirit of Fortran 95, which allowed only the default kind for a
> lot of arguments to intrinsic procedures
> (b) is in the spirit of Fortran 2003 which lifted a lot of those restrictions.
> 
> For legacy intrinsics we have the choice, but I favour option (b).
> 

I agree that (b) is perhaps the best option.  Afterall, we are 
moving forward in time so gfortran will chase F2003 (and F2008).


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