From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23793 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2014 04:45:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 23739 invoked by uid 48); 3 Oct 2014 04:45:14 -0000 From: "damian at sourceryinstitute dot org" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug fortran/48298] [F03] User-Defined Derived-Type IO (DTIO) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:45:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: fortran X-Bugzilla-Version: 4.7.0 X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: damian at sourceryinstitute dot org X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00176.txt.bz2 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48298 --- Comment #9 from Damian Rouson --- Oh boy. I'm guessing that's an indication that there won't be any movement on this anytime soon. It seems this is one of only two major features missing for full Fortran 2003 compliance -- the other being derived type parameters. One of the Fortran committee members recently suggested that derived type parameters be deprecated. I wonder if the same is true of derived type I/O. If the leading open-source Fortran compiler already supports some features of Fortran 2008 and Fortran 2015 but has major features of Fortran 2003 missing a decade after the publication of the standard, maybe that's a sign that the feature should be removed from the language. Thoughts?