Thanks for the additional information Thomas. It sounds like I should test Paul’s patch. I should be able to do so today and will post the results by tomorrow. I’m adding OpenCoarrays developer Zaak Beekman to the cc and attaching the patch again in case he wants to try it as well.
Zaak, the full thread is at https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/ and starts with a message from Paul on November 29. Damian On December 27, 2017 at 11:09:29 AM, Thomas Koenig (tkoe...@netcologne.de(mailto:tkoe...@netcologne.de)) wrote: > Hi Damian, > > > Does breaking binary compatibility simply mean that CAF codes will need to > > be recompiled (which is fine) > > Well... not really. We are not supposed to break binary compatibility > in a release. For gcc-8, we have greater freedom because we had to > do it anyway. > > Now, the interesting question is the impact. If we break binary > compatibilty for something that never worked anyway or was useless, or > something that was broken by a gcc-7 regression, I think we're fine. > > If not, well... one possible decision would be to wait for gcc-8 to > fix this. > > > or does it mean that there will need to be work done on OpenCoarrays > to support the changes > > This, I don't know, never having looked at the OpenCoarrays source. > > Regards > > Thomas
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