------- Comment #8 from sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu 2007-02-23 21:02 ------- Subject: Re: various intrinsics do not diagnose invalid argument kinds
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:42:03PM -0000, burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote: > > > > various intrinsics do not diagnose invalid argument kinds > The question is what is the right solution: > a) Only allow certain kinds > b) Allowing all kinds and doing the conversion/providing the needed functions. > > (a) is in the spirit of Fortran 95, which allowed only the default kind for a > lot of arguments to intrinsic procedures > (b) is in the spirit of Fortran 2003 which lifted a lot of those restrictions. > > For legacy intrinsics we have the choice, but I favour option (b). > I agree that (b) is perhaps the best option. Afterall, we are moving forward in time so gfortran will chase F2003 (and F2008). -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30372
