[Patch,wwwdocs] Update gcc-4.6/changes.html for Fortran

Tobias Burnus burnus@net-b.de
Mon Jun 7 19:43:00 GMT 2010


On 24 May 2010 18:20, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2010, Tobias Burnus wrote:
>   
>> I intended to update the Fortran section of the 4.6 release notes. Do
>> you have any comment or suggestion?
>>     
> +    <li>Fortran 2003 support has been extended:
> +        <li>Extended support for <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OOP">
>
> This has "extended" twice, and perhaps you can add some details on
> the improvements here?
>   
Done.
> +        <li>Experimental <a
> +        href="http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~tburnus/coarray/README.txt">
> +        coarray support</a> (for one image only, i.e. <code>num_images() ==
> +        1</code>); use the <a
>
> How stable is this URL going to be? Will it still be along in two years,
> so?
>   

It will - judging from how long files in .../tmp/ stay on that web
server ;-) but nevertheless, I have now moved the the main block of the
file into the GCC wiki.

Thanks for the suggestions. I have now committed the following. If you
have more suggestions, they are welcome as one can still change that
file ...

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html


Tobias

Checking in changes.html;
/cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.6/changes.html,v  <--  changes.html
new revision: 1.17; previous revision: 1.16
done

Index: changes.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.6/changes.html,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 changes.html
--- changes.html        4 Jun 2010 21:31:47 -0000       1.16
+++ changes.html        7 Jun 2010 19:23:15 -0000
@@ -88,6 +88,29 @@
   <h4>Runtime Library (libstdc++)</h4>
 
 <h3 id="Fortran">Fortran</h3>
+  <ul>
+    <li>Much improved compile time for large array constructors.</li>
+    <li>Improved diagnostics, especially with <tt>-fwhole-file</tt>.</li>
+    <li>Fortran 2003 support has been extended:
+      <ul>
+        <li>Improved supported for polymorphism between libraries and
+        programs and for complicated inheritance patterns (cf. <a
+        href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OOP">object-oriented
programming</a>).
+        </li>
+      </ul>
+    </li>
+    <li>Fortran 2008 support has been extended:
+      <ul>
+        <li>Experimental <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Coarray">
+        coarray support</a> (for one image only, i.e. <code>num_images() ==
+        1</code>); use the <a
+       
href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Code-Gen-Options.html#index-g_t_0040code_007bfcoarray_007d-233">
+        <code>-fcoarray=single</code></a> flag to enable it.</li>
+        <li>The <code>STOP</code> and the new <code>ERROR STOP</code>
+        statements now support all constant expressions.</li>
+      </ul>
+    </li>
+  </ul>
 
 <h3>Java (GCJ)</h3>



More information about the Gcc-patches mailing list