From: Craig Burley Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:30:23 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Update BUGS, NEWS derived files X-Git-Tag: releases/egcs-1.1.2~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c451b7af55e62414d461e5b55b17635dc3637633;p=thirdparty%2Fgcc.git Update BUGS, NEWS derived files From-SVN: r25708 --- diff --git a/gcc/f/BUGS b/gcc/f/BUGS index 9a0472c6d314..dd3f67ea6735 100644 --- a/gcc/f/BUGS +++ b/gcc/f/BUGS @@ -7,45 +7,36 @@ Bugs in GNU Fortran ******************* This section identifies bugs that `g77' *users* might run into in -this version of `g77'. This includes bugs that are actually in the -`gcc' back end (GBE) or in `libf2c', because those sets of code are at -least somewhat under the control of (and necessarily intertwined with) -`g77', so it isn't worth separating them out. +the `egcs'-1.1.2 version of `g77'. This includes bugs that are +actually in the `gcc' back end (GBE) or in `libf2c', because those sets +of code are at least somewhat under the control of (and necessarily +intertwined with) `g77', so it isn't worth separating them out. - For information on bugs in *other* versions of `g77', *Note News -About GNU Fortran: News. + For information on bugs in *other* versions of `g77', see +`egcs/gcc/f/NEWS'. - For information on bugs that might afflict people who configure, -port, build, and install `g77', *Note Problems Installing::. + An online, "live" version of this document (derived directly from +the up-to-date mainline version of `g77' within `egcs') is available at +`http://egcs.cygnus.com/onlinedocs/g77_bugs.html'. * The `IDate' Intrinsic (VXT) fails to return the year in the documented, non-Y2K-compliant range of 0-99, instead returning 100 for the year 2000. - Fixed in `egcs' 1.2. - * Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance information is missing from the documentation. - Fixed in `egcs' 1.2. - * `g77' crashes when compiling I/O statements using keywords that define `INTEGER' values, such as `IOSTAT=J', where J is other than default `INTEGER' (such as `INTEGER*2'). - Fixed in `egcs' 1.2. - * The `-ax' option is not obeyed when compiling Fortran programs. (It is not passed to the `f771' driver.) - Fixed in `egcs' 1.2. - * `g77' fails to warn about a reference to a function when the corresponding *subsequent* function program unit disagrees with the reference concerning the type of the function. - Fixed in `egcs' 1.2. - * Automatic arrays possibly aren't working on HP-UX systems, at least in HP-UX version 10.20. Writing into them apparently causes over-writing of statically declared data in the main program. @@ -101,10 +92,7 @@ port, build, and install `g77', *Note Problems Installing::. compiler.) Note that `g77' does display a warning message to notify the user - before the compiler appears to hang. *Note Initialization of - Large Aggregate Areas: Large Initialization, for information on - how to change the point at which `g77' decides to issue this - warning. + before the compiler appears to hang. * `g77' doesn't emit variable and array members of common blocks for use with a debugger (the `-g' command-line option). The code is @@ -117,9 +105,6 @@ port, build, and install `g77', *Note Problems Installing::. whereby some rudimentary information on a member is written as a string that is the member's value as a character string. - *Note Options for Code Generation Conventions: Code Gen Options, - for information on the `-fdebug-kludge' option. - * When debugging, after starting up the debugger but before being able to see the source code for the main program unit, the user must currently set a breakpoint at `MAIN__' (or `MAIN___' or diff --git a/gcc/f/NEWS b/gcc/f/NEWS index 55463ca9a9d5..ff1bb451a075 100644 --- a/gcc/f/NEWS +++ b/gcc/f/NEWS @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ clarify how they differ from other versions, though this can make getting a complete picture of what a particular `egcs' version contains somewhat more difficult. + An online, "live" version of this document (derived directly from +the up-to-date mainline version of `g77' within `egcs') is available at +`http://egcs.cygnus.com/onlinedocs/g77_news.html'. + In 0.5.24 and `egcs' 1.1.2 (versus 0.5.23 and 1.1.1): ===================================================== @@ -251,9 +255,8 @@ In 0.5.23 (versus 0.5.22): patching it to fix a few bugs and improve performance in a few cases. - *Note Actual Bugs We Haven't Fixed Yet: Actual Bugs, available in - plain-text format in `gcc/f/BUGS', for information on the known - bugs in this version, including the regressions. + See `egcs/gcc/f/BUGS', for information on the known bugs in this + version, including the regressions. Features that have been dropped from this version of `g77' due to their being implemented via `g77'-specific patches to the `gcc' @@ -507,9 +510,8 @@ In `egcs' 1.0 (versus 0.5.21): of patching it to fix a few bugs and improve performance in a few cases. - *Note Actual Bugs We Haven't Fixed Yet: Actual Bugs, available in - plain-text format in `gcc/f/BUGS', for information on the known - bugs in this version, including the regressions. + See `egcs/gcc/f/BUGS', for information on the known bugs in this + version, including the regressions. Features that have been dropped from this version of `g77' due to their being implemented via `g77'-specific patches to the `gcc'