On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:55:01PM +0100, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: > > David Malcolm nice Levenshtein distance spelling check helpers > were used in some parts of other frontends. This proposed patch adds > some spelling corrections to the fortran frontend. > > Suggestions are printed if we can find a suitable name, currently > perusing a very simple cutoff factor: > /* If more than half of the letters were misspelled, the suggestion is > likely to be meaningless. */ > cutoff = MAX (strlen (typo), strlen (best_guess)) / 2; > which effectively skips names with less than 4 characters. > For e.g. structures, one could try to be much smarter in an attempt to > also provide suggestions for single-letter members/components. > > This patch covers (at least partly): > - user-defined operators > - structures (types and their components) > - functions > - symbols (variables) > > I do not immediately see how to handle subroutines. Ideas? > > If anybody has a testcase where a spelling-suggestion would make sense > then please pass it along so we maybe can add support for GCC-7. >
What problem are you trying to solve here? The patch looks like unneeded complexity with the result of injecting C++ idioms into the Fortran FE. -- Steve
