------- Comment #7 from fmuldoo at me dot lsu dot edu 2008-06-21 08:47 -------
Subject: Re: Namelist I/O error: Bogus "Cannot match
namelist object"
Hello Burnus,
Thanks for explaining that to me. It is clear now.
Regards,
Frank
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 08:32 +0000, burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
>
> ------- Comment #6 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-06-21 08:32
> -------
> > I am not sure what is meant by "regression".
>
> Regression means that it used to work in a previous version of gfortran and
> someone managed to break it. This is especially bad as code which worked
> before
> then stops working. This is the reason why all Priority 1 (and possibly P2)
> regressions need to be fixed or downgraded before any new GCC release is done.
>
> Regressions are also the only bugs which may be fixed for minor releases (e.g.
> for the next 4.3.x version), though exceptions are made for serious bugs
> especially if the fix is algorithmically simple. (Otherwise not as by fixing
> one thing, one might create another bug -> a regression.)
>
> > Am I correct in assuming that you do not regard it as an error?
>
> No, if it is valid (ISO standard) Fortran then we definitely want to fix it.
> (If it is a vendor extension, we only might fix it.) In your case it seems to
> be valid Fortran and I believe it will be fixed soonish, though possibly only
> for GCC 4.4.0 and not for 4.3.2 [or 4.2.x].
>
>
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