Re: [patch, fortran] Implement maxloc and minloc for character

[Janne Blomqvist <blomqvist.janne@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
> There is one question regarding the ABI. Apparently, the string length
> is passed as an int even on a 64-bit system. I verified that this
> is indeed the case by doing the actual work on a
> powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu box (gcc110 on the gcc compile farm),
> which is big-endian. If we were actually passing an eight-byte
> quantity, and only getting the upper bytes, we would crash & burn.
>
> Now, I _thought_ we were passing string lengths as size_t now (Janne?),
> but maybe something was missing in that change.

Unfortunately I had to revert the charlen->size_t patch since it
caused regressions on aix/power (presumably due to endianness issues).
I did fix a potential bug there, but I never got any response to my
request to get an account on the gcc compile farm to test it, and gcc
7 stage3 was closing so I ran out of time.

There's apparently some other process for getting compile farm
accounts nowadays, and we have broken the ABI again for gcc 8, so
maybe I should dust off the patch and try again. Or what do you think?



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Janne Blomqvist