GCC 8.1 Released

[Janne Blomqvist]

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 9:22 AM, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Some code that compiled successfully with older GCC versions might
> require
> > source changes, see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/porting_to.html for
> > details.
>
> in "Fortran language issues" it reads: "Prior to GCC 7", shouldn't
> that be "Prior to GCC 8" or "Up to GCC 7"?
>

Yes, indeed it should. Thanks for noticing.


>
> And can somebody can tell me, whether this Fortran issue effects also
> Fortran code which calls C functions?
>
>
If it's a "normal" C function with NULL-terminated strings, then no. If
it's a C function which is designed to follow the Fortran procedure ABI
(where strings are passed as a pointer + a hidden length argument), then
yes.



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Janne Blomqvist