GFortranPatchTracker - GCC Wiki

This page has the purpose to track unreviewed patches. It replaces the nice patch tracker at dberlin.org, which did not survive the server change. This page will be notoriously out dated and hopefully becomes obsolete again.

GCC 4.9

Approved, but not committed

• Optional arguments, PR50981

  • http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2012-02/msg00061.html

  • http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2012-02/msg00062.html

Submitted, but not yet reviewed

• libfortran RFC: Shared vtables, constification

• Work in progress: Final bits for FINAL support, https://userpage.physik.fu-berlin.de/~tburnus/final/

• deferred-length character components, cf. patch review

Coarray support

• Current status and pending patches: See Coarray and README.txt

Available draft patches

• Runtime memory checking: patch -- 1st review – latest version

• By Sa: Derived-type kind parameter patch, initial draft (1), (2) and (2) - rediffed (but needs some fixes)

GDB Debugger patches

• Support for modules is in GDB 7.2 (use: print 'mod1::myvar') as is support for UCS-4 strings (character(kind=4)).

• GDB 7.8 has support for C99's Variable-Length Arrays (VLA) - but not for Fortran 90 arrays.

• GDB 7.9 will have full support for Fortran 90 arrays (assumed shape, deferred shape), cf. patch set.

• Partial support for "Fortran 90" arrays (assumed shape, deferred shape) is provided by the VLA branch, which is currently also used by Red Hat/Fedora and SUSE/openSUSE.