[wwwdocs,committed] GCC 12: Add release note for Fortran TS29113 improvements
Commit Message
I've checked in the attached patch to announce the cleanup project that
Tobias and I have been working on over the last several months in the
GCC 12 release notes. I also updated the page for TS29113 on the GCC
wiki to reflect that anything that still doesn't work ought to be
considered a bug, not just incomplete work-in-progress.
I know that the conformance sections of the Fortran manual are badly in
need of updating too (not just for TS29113, but the various versions of
the standard). That's in my queue to fix up, but I'm likely going to
need assistance from the gfortran maintainers to get the details right. :-S
-Sandra
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Hi Sandra,
> I've checked in the attached patch to announce the cleanup project that
> Tobias and I have been working on over the last several months in the
> GCC 12 release notes. I also updated the page for TS29113 on the GCC
> wiki to reflect that anything that still doesn't work ought to be
> considered a bug, not just incomplete work-in-progress.
Thanks for the work that the both of you put into this, and also thanks
for putting this into the release notes. I was about to suggest you do
so, so you beat me to it :-)
> I know that the conformance sections of the Fortran manual are badly in
> need of updating too (not just for TS29113, but the various versions of
> the standard). That's in my queue to fix up, but I'm likely going to
> need assistance from the gfortran maintainers to get the details right.
> :-S
Just ask :-)
Regards
Thomas
commit f5971f451ae8834e928738bbfe465670aa481cea
Author: Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>
Date: Thu Oct 21 09:00:16 2021 -0700
GCC 12: Add release note for Fortran TS29113 improvements.
@@ -147,7 +147,17 @@ a work-in-progress.</p>
<!-- <h3 id="d">D</h3> -->
-<!-- <h3 id="fortran">Fortran</h3> -->
+<h3 id="fortran">Fortran</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>WG5/N1942, "TS 29113 Further Interoperability of Fortran with C",
+ is now fully supported. In addition to implementing previously
+ missing functionality, such as support for character arguments of
+ length greater than one in functions marked <code>bind(c)</code>
+ and gaps in the handling for assumed-rank arrays, numerous other bugs
+ have been fixed, and an extensive set of new conformance test cases
+ has been added.
+ </li>
+</ul>
<!-- <h3 id="go">Go</h3> -->