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Subject: Re: [RFC] fortran: restore array indexing for all descriptor arrays
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Hi Mikael,

> Feel free to comment, do we need this?

Thanks for taking this on.

One thought: If we have to bite the bullet and break the ABI, why not go
all the way and use the C descriptors in ISO_Fortran_binding.h as
gfortran's native format?

Best regards

	Thomas