On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 03:58:32PM +0100, Thomas Koenig via Fortran wrote: > Paul, > > first of all, thank you very much indeed for the hard work you put into > this! This is a great step for gfortran.
Ditto**2 > > I can hurry this along to get the patch > > into 13-branch or I can wait until 14-branch opens. > > Personally, I think that this fixes so many bugs, and makes > the compiler so much better, that I would prefer having it > in gcc-13. Finalization was only of very limited use before, > and the risk of meaningful regressions (short of a build > failure) is therefore very low. > I agree with Thomas. The main branch is in stage 4, which is regression and documentation fixing mode. I would think the number of bugs fixed by your patch can be argued as fixing regressions. I can set aside some time on Saturday to help with a review (if required). -- Steve