Hi Alessandro, > my name is Alessandro, I'm a newbie of GCC and helped by Tobias Burnus > and Paul Thomas I'll try to add support for final subroutines.
since Tobias already reviewed your patch, I just want to say: Welcome to the team :) We're certainly looking forward to your contributions! Having final subroutines in gfortran will be great progress. Btw, one thing that you may want to look into on your way to FINAL is proper deallocation of polymorphic variables(cf. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46321). This is one thing which is still missing in our OOP implementation, and it's serious in the sense that almost any sensible OOP program produces memory leaks with gfortran right now. It is not exactly a prerequisite to FINAL, but at least similar in spirit. Maybe both features can even be implemented with similar techniques. I actually had some plans to implement it myself, but currently I'm not able to spend large amounts of time on gfortran (unfortunately). In any case, I wish you all the best for your efforts ... Cheers, Janus
