Updated Fortran News and Bugs section.
Toon Moene
toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl
Sun May 28 05:39:00 GMT 2000
L.S.,
I just committed the following changes to the bugs.texi and news.texi
files in the Fortran subdirectory gcc/f:
$ diff -rcp2N news.texi.orig news.texi
*** news.texi.orig Sun May 28 14:17:51 2000
--- news.texi Sun May 28 14:22:22 2000
*************** The following information was last updat
*** 156,159 ****
--- 156,166 ----
@ifclear USERVISONLY
@item
+ Using options @code{-g}, @code{-ggdb} or @code{-gdwarf[-2]} (where
+ appropriate for your target) now also enables debugging information
+ for COMMON BLOCK items to be emitted.
+ @end ifclear
+
+ @ifclear USERVISONLY
+ @item
The @code{TtyNam} intrinsics now set @var{Name} to all spaces (at run
time)
if the system has no @code{ttyname} implementation available.
$ diff -rcp2N bugs.texi.orig bugs.texi
*** bugs.texi.orig Sun May 28 14:13:44 2000
--- bugs.texi Sun May 28 14:30:15 2000
*************** for information on how to change the poi
*** 178,187 ****
@cindex local equivalence areas
@item
! @code{g77} doesn't emit variable and array members of common blocks
for use
with a debugger (the @samp{-g} command-line option).
! The code is present to do this, but doesn't work with at least
! one debug format---perhaps it works with others.
! And it turns out there's a similar bug for
! local equivalence areas, so that has been disabled as well.
As of Version 0.5.19, a temporary kludge solution is provided whereby
--- 178,187 ----
@cindex local equivalence areas
@item
! Previous versions of @code{g77} didn't emit information on
! variable and array members of common blocks for use
with a debugger (the @samp{-g} command-line option).
! As of the version of @code{g77} shipped with version 3.0 of
! @code{GCC}, this is corrected. However, there's a similar bug for
! local equivalence areas, which hasn't been repaired yet.
As of Version 0.5.19, a temporary kludge solution is provided whereby
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