[patch,wwwdata] Update Fortran section of gcc-4.2/changes.html

Brooks Moses brooks.moses@codesourcery.com
Sat Dec 2 18:39:00 GMT 2006


Tobias Burnus wrote:
> +    <li>The GNU Fortran compiler uses now 4-byte records markers for

Should be "record markers".

> +    unformatted files to be compatible with g77 and most other compilers;
> +    the implementation allows for files bigger than 2 GB, compatible with

Isn't that "records bigger than?"

> +    several other compilers. Older versions of gfortran used 8-byte record
> +    markers (on most systems); in order too read unformatted files created

Should be "to read".

> +    by older gfortran versions, the <tt>
> +    <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Runtime-Options.html"
> +    >-frecord-marker=8</a></tt> option can be used.</li>

I think this should say that we use 4-byte record markers "by default"; 
it's always been an option.  Also, the important change is that we allow 
for subrecords and subrecord markers, so I think this should explicitly 
mention "subrecord" somewhere.

Thanks for adding this!

- Brooks



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