On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 10:29 AM Tobias Burnus <tob...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > > On 11/27/19 8:58 AM, Janne Blomqvist wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 1:12 PM Tobias Burnus <tob...@codesourcery.com> > > wrote: > >> AUTOMATIC attribute > > Speaking of which, to avoid confusion maybe we should rename the > > -f[no-]automatic option to something like -f[no-]save, since the > > Fortran standard description of an "automatic data object" doesn't > > really have anything to do with the option, and neither does the > > option have anything to do specifically with the DEC AUTOMATIC > > specifier? > > While in principle I concur that the naming is bad, I fear this will > break several makefiles – hence, I am not sure it is worth the trouble – > and I am declined to say that it isn't.
Yes, of course we can't remove it outright. But we could keep it as a deprecated alias for -f[no-]save (or whatever it should be called) and document it as such. -- Janne Blomqvist