GCC 6.1 release document sparse on Fortran details

GCC 6.1 release document sparse on Fortran details

[Damian Rouson]

All,

Did GCC 6.1 release on 2016-04-15?  I somehow missed the announcement.  

The description of the changes in the Fortran front end in 6.1 are very limited.  See https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html.

Could someone please update the information there to include, for example, support for submodules and events and improved support for deferred-length character variables?  

Damian

Re: GCC 6.1 release document sparse on Fortran details

[Paul Richard Thomas]

I see what you mean!

We were never consulted.

Paul

On 25 April 2016 at 18:21, Damian Rouson <damian@sourceryinstitute.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> Did GCC 6.1 release on 2016-04-15?  I somehow missed the announcement.
>
> The description of the changes in the Fortran front end in 6.1 are very limited.  See https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html.
>
> Could someone please update the information there to include, for example, support for submodules and events and improved support for deferred-length character variables?
>
> Damian



-- 
The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

Re: GCC 6.1 release document sparse on Fortran details

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi all,

no, GCC 6.1 was not released. It was branched on April 15 (and RC 1 was 
released back then), cf. GCC 6.1 RC 1 (alias 6.0.1) 
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-04/msg00103.html and the status report 
for GCC 7 at https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-04/msg00106.html

And a GCC 6.1 RC2 has been released, too (on Saturday, 23 April); cf. 
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-04/msg00218.html – However, GCC 6 
(6.1.0) has not been released yet.

I think the AIX issue mentioned in the RC2 announement turned out to be 
a false alarm, thus, I wouldn't be surprised if GCC 6.1 will be released 
tomorrow.

In any case, I wouldn't harm if someone could update the release notes, 
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html and bring it in sync with 
https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran/News – it seems as if issues

I think I am too much out of sync to be able to manage to do this today 
– and I probably would miss all the changes which are documented at 
neither location.

Cheers,

Tobias,
who might/should find some time to contribute again

Am 25.04.2016 um 20:24 schrieb Paul Richard Thomas:
> I see what you mean!
>
> We were never consulted.
>
> Paul
>
> On 25 April 2016 at 18:21, Damian Rouson <damian@sourceryinstitute.org> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Did GCC 6.1 release on 2016-04-15?  I somehow missed the announcement.
>>
>> The description of the changes in the Fortran front end in 6.1 are very limited.  See https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html.
>>
>> Could someone please update the information there to include, for example, support for submodules and events and improved support for deferred-length character variables?
>>
>> Damian
>
>

Re: GCC 6.1 release document sparse on Fortran details

[Tobias Burnus]

Tobias Burnus wrote:
> In any case, I wouldn't harm if someone could update the release 
> notes, https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html and bring it in sync 
> with https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran/News – it seems as if issues
(to finish my sentence:) it seems as if some changes are documented in 
the releases notes, others in the Wiki, some at both and some at neither 
location.

All the best,

Tobias