From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Love To: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: fortran regression [was Re: Results for egcs-971207 on m68k-next-nextstep3] Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 11:14:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <11472.881801160@hurl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00669.html >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey A Law writes: Jeffrey> It is most likely the gcc2 brought over in the last merge Jeffrey> which try and flag arrays that are too big Jeffrey> (compile/961203-1.c bug). Ah. Doubtless. Jeffrey> We need to figure out how to make fortran work with that Jeffrey> code, either by fixing the gcc2 changes or the fortran front Jeffrey> end. AFAIR the front end is somewhat hamstrung (perhaps depending on exactly what the issue is) and there have been long-standing problems, especially with the debugging info generated leading to gdb crashes trying to assumed-size arrays (which used to appear with huge or negative dimensions). There's an essay on this area in f/com.c (ffecom_sym_transform_), at least I think it's relevant. I think Fortran isn't really usable until this is resolved somehow because that construct is very common. I doubt I can be much help other than maybe explaining the fortran issues if a wizard is able to look into it.