On April 22, 2021 9:09:28 PM GMT+02:00, Michael Meissner 
<meiss...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:10:07AM +0200, Tobias Burnus wrote:
>> On 20.04.21 08:58, Richard Biener via Fortran wrote:
>> >On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 9:40 PM Michael Meissner via Fortran
>> ><fort...@gcc.gnu.org>  wrote:
>> Is there any reason to not only send the email to fortran@ _and_
>> gcc-patches@ but sending it to 13 Fortran maintainers explicitly?
>(Now
>> removed)
>
>Sorry about that.  With PowerPC backend changes, I generally do
>explicitly add
>the maintainers so things don't get lost.
>
>
>> >>Fix Fortran rounding issues, PR fortran/96983.
>> >>
>> >>Can I check this change into the GCC trunk?
>> >The patch looks fine technically and is definitely an improvement
>since the
>> >intermediate conversion looks odd.  But it might be that the
>standard
>> >requires such dance though the preceeding cases handled don't seem
>to
>> >care.  I'm thinking of a FP format where round(1.6) == 3 because of
>lack
>> >of precision but using an intermediate FP format with higher
>precision
>> >would "correctly" compute 2.
>> 
>> The patched build_round_expr is only called by ANINT / NINT;
>> NINT is real → integer; ANINT is real → real
>> [And the modified code is only called for NINT, reason: see comment
>far below.]
>> 
>> NINT (A[, KIND]) is described (F2018) as "Nearest integer":
>> * Result Characteristics. Integer. If KIND is present, the kind type
>parameter
>>   is that specified by the value of KIND;
>>   otherwise, the kind type parameter is that of default integer type.
>> * The result is the integer nearest A, or if there are two
>>   integers equally near A, the result is whichever such integer has
>the greater
>>   magnitude.
>> * Example. NINT (2.783) has the value 3.
>> 
>> ANINT (A[, KIND]) as "Nearest whole number":
>> * The result is of type real. If KIND is present, the kind type
>parameter is that
>>   specified by the value of KIND; otherwise, the kind type parameter
>is that of A.
>> * The result is the integer nearest A, or if there are two integers
>equally near A,
>>   the result is whichever such integer has the greater magnitude.
>> * Examples. ANINT (2.783) has the value 3.0. ANINT (−2.783) has the
>value −3.0.
>> 
>> >Of course the current code doesn't handle this correctly for the
>> >case if llroundf either.
>> >>I've not contributed to the Fortran front end before.  If the
>maintainers like
>> >>the patch, can somebody point out if I need to do additional things
>to commit
>> >>the patch?
>> Nothing special: a testcase already exists, committing is done as
>usual
>> and a PR to update you have as well.
>
>Given GCC 11 has branched, is it ok to backport the patch to the GCC 11
>branch
>as well?  I assume it is, since it fixes a regression in the compiler.

Please wait until after 11.1 is released. 

Thanks, 
Richard. 

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