ping To reinforce the message in my earlier email: we can fine-tune the list of allowed characters in identifiers later, but I’d like to get this patch in already (so it gets large exposure before the 4.10 release).
FX > Binding label can be any initialisation expression. Well, only scalar > character of the default kind, but still… > > This patch achieves this goal by following the obvious plan, which has not > changed since I wrote it in PR 36275 in 2008 :) > The custom matcher for binding label, in gfc_match_bind_c(), is removed and > the generic matcher gfc_match_init_expr() is called, followed by checks that > the expression obtained fulfills the constraints of a C identifier. > > So, now is the time to think about PR 38839 (what characters to allow as a > binding label): right now, I allow alphadecimals, underscore and dollar. > >From the PR comments, it seems like @ and ` might be also allowed for > universal-character names, but they are not supported by GCC on platforms I > tested right now. Let me know what you think, but I don’t think we should > worry to much about it. > > Bootstrapped and regtested on x86_64-apple-darwin13, comes with testcases. > OK to commit? > > FX > > > PS: you may notice I have had some time to hack at gfortran these past few > days... it feels good!
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