From: Paul Richard Thomas <paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Cc: "fortran@gcc.gnu.org" <fortran@gcc.gnu.org>,
Fritz Reese <fritzoreese@gmail.com>,
Janne Blomqvist <blomqvist.janne@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: State of gfortran regressions
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGkQGiJofG4OzeX=xTcvhRSPZL2FY=Hgko6fbTk8jirZuetgCw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba4a1e5c-0135-d4be-2f48-871bca56beb6@netcologne.de>
Hi Thomas,
I am waiting for a flight home. I'll get back in touch tomorrow sometime.
Cheers
Paul
On 16 March 2018 at 14:57, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> even if the gcc 8 release is still some time away, we should consider
> spending some effort on fixing the regressions.
>
> Here is a current list of the gcc-8 regressions, with some comments from
> my side.
>
> PR 82976 - non-trivial conversion at assignment since r254526
> This one is a bit of a mystery to debug - it happens, it is
> reproducible, but the *.original tree dump shows nothing.
>
> PR 83999 - an ICE-on-valid with a class pointer assignment.
> Has not yet been bisected to a revision.
>
> PR 84135 - a coarray issue, maybe fairly easy to fix, a missing
> NULL check.
>
> PR 84615 - it seems that, with the size_t string lengths, -m32 got
> broken for character arguments:-( This is actually a fairly serious
> one. If we cannot fix that one in time for the gcc-8 release, we should
> consider reverting the new string length patch. I'm going to take a
> look, but I won't be offended if anybody else beats me to it :-)
>
> PR 82972 and 83088 - two -finit-derived bugs. Fritz, you have assigned
> the first one to yourself. What are your plans with this?
>
> PR 84487. Another mystery - rodata increases a lot for a test case.
> I have compared the assembly listings, and I don't understand
> why that happens.
>
> PR 84848 - a HP-PA failure. So far, no gfortran maintainer
> has reproduced this on a system he has access to.
>
> PR 83705, a corner case where REPEAT doesn't work for incredibly
> large values when simplifying. Probably the least important of
> all the bugs.
>
> There are also 21 7/8 regressions, which I will also look through
> to see if there is anything that I could get a handle on.
>
> Comments?
>
> Regards
>
> Thomas
--
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
- Albert Einstein
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