On 9/20/22 14:17, Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On 20.09.22 14:02, Martin Liška wrote:
>> diff --git a/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi b/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi
>> @@ -455,9 +455,7 @@ version 2.6, @uref{https://www.openacc.org/}). See
>> The Fortran 95 standard specifies in Part 2 (ISO/IEC 1539-2:2000)
>> varying length character strings. While GNU Fortran currently does not
>> support such strings directly, there exist two Fortran implementations
>> -for them, which work with GNU Fortran. They can be found at
>> -@uref{https://www.fortran.com/@/iso_varying_string.f95} and at
>> -@uref{ftp://ftp.nag.co.uk/@/sc22wg5/@/ISO_VARYING_STRING/}.
>> +for them, which work with GNU Fortran.
>
> Instead of removing the links, can we rather replace it by an updated link?
>
> Richard Townsend has implemented the fortran.com version; webarchive
> show that was the 1.3-F version that is still available from his own
> homepage at:
>
> http://user.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=iso-varying-string
> (BTW: I now also added Richard's website to web.archive.org.)
>
> I don't think most users need this module, but still if it is mentioned,
> I does not harm to have the link available.
Thanks for the archeological work you did.
Sure, what about the suggested patch?
Martin
>
> Tobias
>
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From 64376d0f450b03e2bdaad486aaa5df8141b2dde1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Liska <mli...@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:23:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fortran: add link to ISO_VARYING_STRING module [PR106636]
PR fortran/106636
gcc/fortran/ChangeLog:
* gfortran.texi: Add back link to ISO_VARYING_STRING.
---
gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi b/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi
index 25410e6088d..4ab67700362 100644
--- a/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi
+++ b/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi
@@ -455,7 +455,8 @@ version 2.6, @uref{https://www.openacc.org/}). See
The Fortran 95 standard specifies in Part 2 (ISO/IEC 1539-2:2000)
varying length character strings. While GNU Fortran currently does not
support such strings directly, there exist two Fortran implementations
-for them, which work with GNU Fortran.
+for them, which work with GNU Fortran. One can be found at
+@uref{http://user.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=iso-varying-string}.
Deferred-length character strings of Fortran 2003 supports part of
the features of @code{ISO_VARYING_STRING} and should be considered as
--
2.37.3
