On Aug 20 2019, Steve Kargl wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:56:27PM +0200, Thomas Koenig wrote:
I wrote:
> Committed as r274551.
Well, this revision appears to have woken quite a few bugs from their
slumber. While argument mismatch was always illegal, it seems to have
been a common idiom at one time. And, like almost all bad habits of
the past, SPEC also has this (see PR 91473, where you can see thatt a
rather large number of SPEC tests now require -std=legacy).
Yes and no. In de jure standard Fortran, it always has been illegal,
but the de facto standards were not always the same. This caused a LOT
of debate in the early 1970s :-) It was also an essential facility, for
various reasons, none of which have applied since Fortran 90.
So, what to do? Is -std=legacy the right option, or should we add
something different (like -faccept-argument-mismatch), which we
could then set by -std=legacy? And is there anything special
we should be doing after we have diagnoses the problem, if the
user simply wants to run the code?
Perhaps, something along the lines of -fallow-invalid-boz
I recently introduced. Issue an error be default, but
have -fallow-argument-mismatch downgrades the error to a
warning. The only way to disable the warning is with -w.
Personally, if gfortran can detect an error in code, I think
it should report the error to the user.
I agree.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
