[Bug fortran/48298] [F03] User-Defined Derived-Type IO (DTIO)

[damian at sourceryinstitute dot org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48298

--- Comment #9 from Damian Rouson <damian at sourceryinstitute dot org> ---
Oh boy.  I'm guessing that's an indication that there won't be any movement on
this anytime soon.  It seems this is one of only two major features missing for
full Fortran 2003 compliance -- the other being derived type parameters.  One
of the Fortran committee members recently suggested that derived type
parameters be deprecated.  I wonder if the same is true of derived type I/O. 
If the leading open-source Fortran compiler already supports some features of
Fortran 2008 and Fortran 2015 but has major features of Fortran 2003 missing a
decade after the publication of the standard, maybe that's a sign that the
feature should be removed from the language.  Thoughts?