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From: Janne Blomqvist <blomqvist.janne@gmail.com>
To: "Thomas König" <tk@tkoenig.net>
Cc: "fortran@gcc.gnu.org" <fortran@gcc.gnu.org>,
	gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch, fortran] Load scalar intent-in variables at the beginning of procedures
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO9iq9HkpWu3z3QuLM0zLwtXAcEGcRDXVzDFEvAe9eH3OZMqog@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e3e8ce4-e7ed-c583-80dd-51bf7f9b2d15@tkoenig.net>

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 12:53 AM Thomas König <tk@tkoenig.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Janne,
>
> > Wouldn't it be even better to pass scalar intent(in) variables by
> > value? The obvious objection of course is ABI, but for procedures with
> > an explicit interface we're not following any particular ABI anyways?
>
> The problem with that is that we don't know when we compile a procedure
> if it will be called with an explicit interface or not.
>
> The user can always add an interface block for a stand-alone procedure.

Ah, of course. I should have said module procedures. Or even module
procedures without bind(C)?

That being said, I've seen examples where people have figured out the
symbol mangling and are calling module procedures directly from C, so
will breaking such code (even if not officially supported) be an
issue?


-- 
Janne Blomqvist

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-12  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-11 21:57 Thomas König
2019-11-11 22:08 ` Thomas Koenig
2019-11-11 22:53 ` Janne Blomqvist
2019-11-11 23:02   ` Thomas König
2019-11-12  7:48     ` Janne Blomqvist [this message]
2019-11-12 12:50       ` Thomas König
2019-11-12 14:33         ` Tobias Burnus
2019-11-12 17:22           ` Thomas König
2019-11-15  7:41 ` Tobias Burnus
2019-11-15 18:07   ` Thomas König
2019-11-16 20:42     ` Thomas Koenig
2019-11-19 10:46       ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2019-11-19 23:04         ` Thomas Koenig
2019-11-20 18:00           ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2019-11-20 20:45             ` Janne Blomqvist
2019-11-20 21:07               ` Steve Kargl
2019-11-20 21:35               ` Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
2019-11-20 20:46       ` Janne Blomqvist
2019-11-20 21:39         ` Thomas König
2019-11-20 22:19           ` Janne Blomqvist
2019-11-20 22:32             ` Janne Blomqvist
2019-11-21  9:35               ` Janne Blomqvist
2019-11-20 22:37             ` Tobias Burnus
2019-11-20 22:41             ` Thomas König
2019-11-20 22:30           ` Tobias Burnus
2019-11-21  9:41           ` Tobias Burnus
2019-11-21 12:30             ` Richard Biener
2019-11-21 13:17               ` Tobias Burnus
2019-11-21 13:37                 ` Tobias Burnus
2019-11-21 14:10                 ` Richard Biener
2019-11-21 14:39                   ` Tobias Burnus
2019-11-22 10:44                     ` Tobias Burnus

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