On 11/26/19 7:33 PM, Mark Eggleston wrote:
htdocs/gcc-10/changes.html | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ <li>
+ Default fields widths can be used for <code>I</code>, <code>F</code>
+ and <code>G</code> format specifiers when excplicit widths are omitted.
+ Use the option <code>-fdec-format-defaults</code>, this options is
implied
+ with <code>-fdec</code>.
+ </li>
Typo: excplicit. I had to read it twice and look at the manual: The
options permits to use I/F/G data-edit descriptors** without specifying
a number (a width) and then a default width is used. At the first
reading, I wondered whether in the code or on the command line one
specifies the default value.
Maybe the following is clearer:
"For formatted input/output, if the explicit widths after the data-edit
descriptors <code>I</code>, <code>F</code> and <code>G</code> have been
omitted, default widths are used."
Other wording suggestions are welcome.
+ <li>
+ A blank format item at the end of a format specification i.e. nothing
+ following the final comma is allowed. Use the option
+ <code>-fdec-blank-format-item</code>, this options is implied with
+ <code>-fdec</code>.
+ </li>
(I personally would add a comma before 'i.e.' and 'is allowed' – but
commas are a rather personal affair.*)
+ <li>
+ Character type names in errors and warnings now include <code>len</code>
+ in addition to <code>kind</code>, <code>*</code> is used for assumed
+ length. The kind is omitted if it the default kind. Examples:
+ <code>CHARACTER(12)</code>, <code>CHARACTER(6,4)</code>.
I'd use a semicolon instead of a comma before "* is used for". And add
an 'is' after 'if it'.
Otherwise, it looks good to me.
Tobias
*Cf. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/holy-writ
** data-edit-desc is the wording used by the Fortran standard; but I
don't think its name makes it immediately clear what is meant.
