[patch, Fortran] Change -std=f2008tr to f2008ts, update *.texi status and TR29113->TS29113

Tobias Burnus burnus@net-b.de
Wed Oct 12 14:43:00 GMT 2011


Hello all,

this patch does two things:
a) It updates the Fortran 2003 and TR/TS 29113 status in the GNU Fortran 
manual.
b) It changes all references to Technical Report 29113 to Technical 
Specification 29113
c) It changes -std=f2008tr to -std=f2008ts

(a) is obvious.

Regarding (b): For some reason, ISO's SC22 thinks that one should not 
use Technical Reports (TR) but a Technical Specification (TS) for the 
Further //Interoperability of Fortran with C document - and later also 
for the coarray extensions. Glancing at the documentation, I think they 
are right that a TS is better; there are procedural differences, but for 
us the main difference is the name. As the final word is TS, I think 
gfortran should use TS and not TR throughout for the post-F2008 
technical documents.

Cf. ftp://ftp.nag.co.uk/sc22wg5/N1851-N1900/N1879.txt : "JTC 1/SC 22 
instructs the JTC 1/SC 22/WG 5 Convenor to submit future drafts of TR 
29113, Further Interoperability of Fortran with C as Technical 
Specifications"

For the difference between TS and TR, see also 
http://www.iso.org/iso/standards_development/processes_and_procedures/deliverables.htm; 
for the different approval scheme also the following flow chart 
(clickable): 
http://www.iso.org/iso/standards_development/it_tools/flowchart_main.htm


Regarding (c): If we switch to TS everywhere, I think it makes sense to 
also call the flag -std=f2008ts; the flag stands for: Follow the 
standard according to Fortran 2008 with the extensions defined in the 
post-F2008 (pre-F2013) standard. Namely, TS 29113 on further 
interoperability of Fortran with C and the coarray TS, which is in a 
rather early stage. (TS 29113 is already past a PDTS voting and a DTS 
should be submitted until June 2012.

Given that -std=f2008tr was never included in a released GCC version and 
given that it currently only allows very few features, I think no one 
actually uses it. Hence, I decided that one can simply change it without 
taking care of still accepting the f2008tr version.

(Currently supported TS 29113 features: OPTIONAL with BIND(C) - absent 
arguments are indicated as NULL pointer, matching the internal 
implementation. RANK() intrinsic - which is boring without assumed-rank 
arrays. ASYNCHRONOUS - well, only the semantic has changed a bit since 
F2003/GCC 4.6; however, GCC's middle end uses by default ASYNCHRONOUS 
semantic; turning it off is a missed-optimization bug.)

The patch was build and regtested on x86-64-linux.
OK for the trunk?

Tobias

PS: I will also update the release notes after the patch has been committed.
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