On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Jerry DeLisle <jvdeli...@charter.net> wrote:
> On 10/24/2016 07:23 AM, Fritz Reese wrote:
>>
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2016-10/msg00087.html et. al.
>>>
>>> On 12/10/16 13:30, Fritz Reese wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here I submit for review four small extensions to the GNU Fortran
>>>> frontend for compatibility with legacy code. I figure it might be a
>>>> nice change of pace from my larger patches. Never fear, for I have
>>>> more large patches to come, which I will continue to submit
>>>> one-at-a-time.
...
>> OK for trunk now? (regtests x86_64-redhat-linux)
>>
>
> God do go!
>
> Jerry
>

Committed r241516, r241517, r241518, r241519.

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Fritz Reese
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Fritz Reese


On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Jerry DeLisle <jvdeli...@charter.net> wrote:
> On 10/24/2016 07:23 AM, Fritz Reese wrote:
>>
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2016-10/msg00087.html et. al.
>>>
>>> On 12/10/16 13:30, Fritz Reese wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here I submit for review four small extensions to the GNU Fortran
>>>> frontend for compatibility with legacy code. I figure it might be a
>>>> nice change of pace from my larger patches. Never fear, for I have
>>>> more large patches to come, which I will continue to submit
>>>> one-at-a-time.
>>
>>
>> Sorry I took a break from this last week. Back on it this week. I
>> really hope I can get the rest of my major extensions in before the
>> next release stage, which is apparently imminent, so I might have an
>> overwhelming number of submissions this week...
>>
>> Here's how I'm thinking of the flags situation: we use -std=legacy for
>> old compatibility stuff that users shouldn't use, and -fdec for
>> ancient compatibility stuff that users _really_ shouldn't use. So if a
>> user wants the compiler to mimic an old DEC compiler they hit -fdec
>> and get -std=legacy and all the bells and whistles of the
>> deleted/obsolete/compatibility extensions without question. Otherwise
>> they can just use -std=legacy for a more reasonable compilation, or
>> -std=gnu for some such extensions with reasonable warnings.
>>
>> Anyway, here's a resubmission of the several patches for the four
>> extensions mentioned previously, plus an initial cleanup patch for
>> -fdec. Sorry to pork-barrel the cleanup patch in here, but it combines
>> some stuff I've been meaning to touch up with the change of making
>> -fdec into flag_dec using Fortran Var. (This is necessary for the
>> type-print and future extensions to be enabled with -fdec without
>> their own flag.)
>>
>> To summarize, we have
>> 0001 Cleanup -fdec: rolls some options in with fdec that were
>> documented as being a part of it previously (-fdollar-ok,
>> -fcray-pointer, -fd-lines-as-comments, legacy/deleted/obsolete feature
>> standard bits) and moves fdec-structure out of gfc_option to use
>> Fortran Var.
>> 0002 [always] Form feed: feed characters ('\f') accepted as whitespace in
>> source
>> 0003 [-fdec] TYPE is an alias for PRINT
>> 0004 [-std=legacy] %LOC() can be used as an rval (like the LOC()
>> intrinsic)
>> 0005 [-std=legacy] Support for .XOR. operator (same as .NEQV.)
>>
>> The -std=legacy extensions of course compile clean with -std=legacy,
>> give warnings with-std=gnu, and give errors with -std=f*.
>>
>> OK for trunk now? (regtests x86_64-redhat-linux)
>>
>
> God do go!
>
> Jerry
>

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