(j3.2006) Did we intend to prohibit this?

[Van Snyder]

On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 10:07 +0900, Cohen Malcolm wrote:
> 
> >This brings me back to the other question in my original message, which
> >Malcolm erroneously interpreted as a question about the standard, rather
> >than a question about what processors actually do:
> 
> No, I did not erroneously interpret it.  I just don't think it is a useful
> question to ask of the committee that writes the Fortran standard.  We
> designed the feature to facilitate a number of optimisations, but we cannot
> force anyone to do them. 

A list that reaches the major processor providers seemed like a good
place to ask a question about what their processors do.  It could get
lost among the chaff in comp-fortran-90 or comp.lang.fortran. The
sc22wg5 list seemed like the wrong place.

If the vendors say "sure, that's obvious; it's on our list" there's
little point to pursue changes to the standard to make the syntax reveal
the desired optimization.