https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117381
Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Severity|normal |enhancement
Status|WAITING |NEW
--- Comment #19 from Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
I am reminded of when the first IBM PC was expandable to 640K of memory and
comments at the time, who would ever need that much memory. Therefore, I
recommend that we leave the default limit per standards and allow users to set
-fmax-identifier-length= up to 127.
Give a warning if 63 is exceeded regardless of -std= and an error with
-pedantic.
Error regardless if <6 or greater than 127.
Cleanup our documentation as noted in others comments.
We should also make it clear this is not a defect in gfortran but it is a
request for a reasonable enhancement. My time is limited so if anyone else
would like to take this on, please do. If I can get to it, I will. Steve has
shown most, if not all, of the needed patch.
