[PATCH] Fortran - character type names in errors and warning - for review

[Mark Eggleston]

On 13/09/2019 07:54, Janne Blomqvist wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 4:52 PM Mark Eggleston
> <mark.eggleston@codethink.co.uk> wrote:
>> To work around these problems I added a new length field to gfc_typespec
>> to used to produce the name of a character type if the character length
>> structure is not present.
>> The addition of the length field is a bit of kludge any pointers
>> regarding a better solution will be appreciated.
> Thanks for the patch, I agree that we should print character type
> names better. However, I'm not really happy with this approach.
> Requiring us to keep track of the character length in two places
> sounds like a recipe for confusing bugs. I don't really have a good
> solution thought out for this, but I think this should be solved
> somehow before committing the patch.
I agree, it was an east fix to get it to work.  The issues with existing 
location for character length should investigated further and a better 
solution found.
>
> Secondly, character lengths can be longer than what fits into int. In
> gfortran.h you'll find
>
> typedef HOST_WIDE_INT gfc_charlen_t;
>
> and then you should use gfc_mpz_get_hwi() instead of mpz_get_si(). And
> for the *printf() format string you should use
> HOST_WIDE_INT_PRINT_DEC.
Acknowledged.
>
> Thanks,

Will submit an updated patch when fixed.

regards,

Mark

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