From: Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.ibm.com>
To: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Cc: Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.ibm.com>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
fortran@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
Tobias Burnus <tobias@codesourcery.com>,
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: libgfortran.so SONAME and powerpc64le-linux ABI changes
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 11:24:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YV8RMwrw5Xa7Z2dm@toto.the-meissners.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3dacfdf6-6b23-f307-969a-94265b506edb@netcologne.de>
On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 08:08:21AM +0200, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> On 07.10.21 05:35, Michael Meissner via Fortran wrote:
> > I tried this at one point. There are a lot of hidden assumptions that the kind
> > number is the number of bytes. I'm sure it can be tracked down, but the
> > problem is with these assumptions is you can't prove a negative (i.e. you never
> > know that you've missed some).
>
> So, summing up from the Fortran side, I'd say the best course of action
> is to
>
> - make KIND=16 into IEEE QP
This is probably the right thing to do. Note, it will effectively mean that
any fortran users on BE systems will no longer be able to use KIND=16.
It will also be a compatibility issue if users have code compiled on a LE
system with GCC 11 and earlier with KIND=16, it will not link with GCC 12.
--
Michael Meissner, IBM
PO Box 98, Ayer, Massachusetts, USA, 01432
email: meissner@linux.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-07 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-04 10:07 Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-04 11:24 ` Richard Biener
2021-10-04 11:36 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-04 12:31 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-04 14:14 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-04 16:47 ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-04 18:33 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-04 19:24 ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-05 17:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-14 19:39 ` Bill Schmidt
2021-10-15 0:26 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-05 20:16 ` Thomas Koenig
2021-10-05 21:54 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-06 6:59 ` Thomas Koenig
2021-10-06 15:17 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-06 15:41 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-06 16:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-06 16:34 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-06 16:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-06 17:07 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-06 17:50 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-06 19:30 ` Peter Bergner
2021-10-06 17:13 ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-06 18:39 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-06 19:42 ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-06 20:57 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-06 21:55 ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-06 22:03 ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-08 17:53 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-11 20:11 ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-15 0:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-06 15:42 ` David Edelsohn
2021-10-06 16:19 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-06 17:38 ` David Edelsohn
2021-10-07 3:42 ` Michael Meissner
2021-10-08 21:10 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-07 9:48 ` Alastair McKinstry
2021-10-07 9:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-07 10:01 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-07 12:43 ` Alastair McKinstry
2021-10-05 21:53 ` Jonathan Wakely
2021-10-07 3:35 ` Michael Meissner
2021-10-07 6:08 ` Thomas Koenig
2021-10-07 9:40 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-07 15:24 ` Michael Meissner [this message]
2021-10-07 15:33 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-08 6:35 ` Thomas Koenig
2021-10-08 7:20 ` Iain Sandoe
2021-10-08 16:26 ` Thomas Koenig
2021-10-08 19:11 ` Iain Sandoe
2021-10-08 22:55 ` Thomas Koenig
2021-10-08 23:18 ` Iain Sandoe
2021-10-09 9:11 ` Thomas Koenig
2021-10-09 9:19 ` Iain Sandoe
2021-10-09 9:25 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-09 7:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-10 16:14 ` Florian Weimer
2021-10-15 13:50 ` Bill Schmidt
2021-10-15 14:20 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-15 18:05 ` Thomas Koenig
2021-10-15 18:11 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-15 18:58 ` Thomas Koenig
2021-10-15 22:24 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-15 22:36 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-10-18 19:02 ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-28 3:10 ` Michael Meissner
2021-10-29 3:36 ` libgfortran.so SONAME and powerpc64le-linux ABI changes (work in progress patches) Michael Meissner
2021-10-29 19:07 ` Thomas Koenig
2021-10-29 21:06 ` Michael Meissner
2021-11-01 15:56 ` Bill Schmidt
2021-11-02 15:40 ` Michael Meissner
2021-10-30 0:16 ` libgfortran.so SONAME and powerpc64le-linux ABI changes (2nd patch) Michael Meissner
2021-10-30 9:30 ` Thomas Koenig
2021-10-30 10:03 ` Jakub Jelinek
2021-10-30 10:31 ` Thomas Koenig
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