[Bug fortran/78534] Use a larger integer type for character lengths on 64-bit targets

[jb at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78534

--- Comment #5 from Janne Blomqvist <jb at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #2)
> So are you going to do everything that is in the wiki (or most of it)?
> Also, I couldn't find in the list, I think some descriptor changes were
> considered (to use 15 dimensions instead of 7, etc.).

The array descriptor changes are on the fortran-dev branch, which apparently
isn't ready for merging yet. So it seems we'll bump the ABI both for GCC 7 and
for GCC 8.. :(

The plan was to do all the changes at once so we don't have to bump the ABI
many times, but it was accidentally broken for GCC 7 before fortran-dev was
ready.

As for the rest of the list, we'll see. I don't have that much time myself, but
maybe if the other maintainers would take an interest.