https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90329
--- Comment #6 from Thomas Koenig <tkoenig at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Janne Blomqvist from comment #5) > (In reply to Thomas Koenig from comment #4) > > Currently, I am leaning towards using an option with a mandatory > > warning (no way to turn it off) which does not push any string lenghts > > onto the stack at all, something like -fbroken-character-abi, > > which we would use for external procedures without an explicit interface. > > Hmm, wouldn't this completely break procedures with "character(len=*)" dummy > arguments? Yes :-( This would be more or less equivalent to a -fbind-c flag. >Or did mean that it would be used only for length=1 strings? Unfortunately, the callee does not know the string length passed by the caller. > > I can also extend -fc-prototypes so that it also issues prototypes > > for any global procedures outside of BIND(C), or add a new option. > > This might be useful. I just noticed that -fc-prototypes does not issue a prototype for a global BIND(C) procedure. I'll probably fix that one soon.
