On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 12:24 PM Marshall Ward <marshall.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > This patch adds a macro, AC_FC_CRAY_POINTER, which tests if the Fortran > compiler supports Cray pointers.
This seems like a reasonable addition to me. Would anyone with Fortran experience care to comment? I have never properly learned Fortran. I think we would prefer the macro to be named AC_FC_CRAY_POINTERS, and I wonder whether there should be a _F77_ variant -- Cray pointers have been around since the 80s, haven't they? We are in a feature freeze right now, because we're trying to get the long-overdue 2.70 release finished; the earliest your patch could be accepted is for the 2.71 release. Also, I don't recognize your name as a prior contributor to Autoconf. This is more code than we can accept without a copyright assignment. If you've already gone through that process, or your contribution would be covered by your employer's assignment, just let me know; otherwise you need to follow the instructions on the form at https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/tree/doc/Copyright/request-assign.future . It is best to do this as soon as possible, because sometimes the FSF takes a long time to process the paperwork. (The need for a copyright assignment also means I haven't reviewed your code in detail.) zw