2007-03-05 Brooks Moses <brooks.moses@codesourcery.com>
+ * gfortran.texi (Old-style kind specifications): Document
+ special handling of old-style kind specifiers for COMPLEX.
+ * decl.c (gfc_match_old_kind_spec): Document kind/bytesize
+ assumptions for COMPLEX in comment.
+
+2007-03-05 Brooks Moses <brooks.moses@codesourcery.com>
+
PR 31050
* gfortranspec.c (lang_specific_driver): Update program
name and copyright date.
}
-/* Match an extended-f77 kind specification. This assumes that the kind
- number is equal to the byte size for non-COMPLEX types, and equal to
- half of the byte size for COMPLEX. */
+/* Match an extended-f77 "TYPESPEC*bytesize"-style kind specification.
+ This assumes that the byte size is equal to the kind number for
+ non-COMPLEX types, and equal to twice the kind number for COMPLEX. */
match
gfc_match_old_kind_spec (gfc_typespec *ts)
@smallexample
TYPESPEC*size x,y,z
@end smallexample
+@noindent
where @code{TYPESPEC} is a basic type (@code{INTEGER}, @code{REAL},
-etc.), and where @code{size} is a byte count corresponding to a valid
-kind for that type. The statement then declares @code{x}, @code{y} and
-@code{z} to be of type @code{TYPESPEC} with the appropriate kind. This
-is equivalent to the standard conforming declaration
+etc.), and where @code{size} is a byte count corresponding to the
+storage size of a valid kind for that type. (For @code{COMPLEX}
+variables, @code{size} is the total size of the real and imaginary
+parts.) The statement then declares @code{x}, @code{y} and @code{z} to
+be of type @code{TYPESPEC} with the appropriate kind. This is
+equivalent to the standard-conforming declaration
@smallexample
TYPESPEC(k) x,y,z
@end smallexample
+@noindent
where @code{k} is equal to @code{size} for most types, but is equal to
@code{size/2} for the @code{COMPLEX} type.