On Wed, 8 Mar 2023, Thomas Koenig wrote: > On 08.03.23 09:14, Richard Biener wrote: > > While Fortran is not considered release critical it would be bad to > > break say the build of SPEC CPU 2017 or Polyhedron very late in the > > cycle. I'd lean towards postponing this to early stage1 and eventually > > backport it for GCC 13.2 if you would like this feature to be implemented > > for GCC 13. > > And now comes the problem - no Fortran maintanier has access to SPEC > 2017, as far as I know. The curse of closed-source benchmarks...
:/ But at least you can watch https://lnt.opensuse.org after-the-fact > How extensive is SPEC using finalization? My personal guess would be > that it is not used extensively, since gfortran's implementation is > pretty broken at the moment. I'd say it probably doesn't use it. But I was more worrying about unwanted side-effects on code _not_ using finalization. Do you know of any medium to large size Fortran code base that uses finalization? Richard.