[RFC]: Document patch for F90 derived type support

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Wed Mar 1 19:02:00 GMT 2006


> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:05:01 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> This is the same name that, e.g., gfortran probably uses in some
> error messages.

If "int4" is the official gfortran name (is it?), then I agree we
should leave it alone.

> No, it can't be quite that simple, because current versions of Fortran
> do support user-named types - "int4" does not necessarily imply
> integer(4).

Perhaps I'm confused: isn't "int4" a 32-bit integer?  I thought it
was, but if I was mistaken, my apologies for the noise.

> Paul also corrected me on the naming - this would be integer(4)
> apparently, integer*4 is something different.

Can you (or someone else) elaborate, or point me to some document that
does?



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