gfortran backports to 4.0

[Mark Mitchell]

I've been added me to the Cc: list for PR 20930, which is a Fortran PR. 
  This is a bug in 4.0 and has been fixed on the mainline.  David would 
like the patch to appear in 4.0.x as well.

For the record, it's fine to backport Fortran changes to 4.0.  I see 
Fortran 4.0 as very much a work in progress, with a relatively minimal 
installed user base, and it's entirely reasonable to make riskier 
changes there than we would for C or C++, especially to fix critical 
bugs in 4.0.

In fact, I'd encourage the Fortran maintainers to accept backported 
patches, though, of course, the decision is up to them.  I'm not trying 
to create an obligation for anyone, but, for what it's worth, I think 
that following up on:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-04/msg02699.html

and, in particular, this statement from Steven:

> I guess we should re-sync mainline and 4.0 soon, your patch would be
> included automatically.

would be nice.

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