[Patch, gcc-wwdocs] Update to Fortran changes

[Janne Blomqvist]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 10:29 AM Tobias Burnus <tobias@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/27/19 8:58 AM, Janne Blomqvist wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 1:12 PM Tobias Burnus <tobias@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> >> AUTOMATIC attribute
> > Speaking of which, to avoid confusion maybe we should rename the
> > -f[no-]automatic option to something like -f[no-]save, since the
> > Fortran standard description of an "automatic data object" doesn't
> > really have anything to do with the option, and neither does the
> > option have anything to do specifically with the DEC AUTOMATIC
> > specifier?
>
> While in principle I concur that the naming is bad, I fear this will
> break several makefiles – hence, I am not sure it is worth the trouble –
> and I am declined to say that it isn't.

Yes, of course we can't remove it outright. But we could keep it as a
deprecated alias for -f[no-]save (or whatever it should be called) and
document it as such.


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Janne Blomqvist