[J3] Miscount of derived types

[Malcolm Cohen]

Right, Fortran 2018 added a type but did not update introductory paragraph.

 

That introductory paragraph should probably be reworded to eliminate the count of the number of types (in case we add anything else). Also, on the face of it, the type count would prohibit a processor from defining additional types in those modules, which is contrary to our general permission for the processor to extend them.

 

I don’t feel inclined to write an edit paper on this right now, as there is a lot of work I have to do to produce a new draft 007 well before October. Perhaps someone else could give this some consideration, or at least remind me in a couple of months time that something should be done about it.

 

Cheers,

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..............Malcolm Cohen, NAG Oxford/Tokyo.

 

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In my copy of 18-007r1, Section 17.2 begins with the claim "The modules IEEE_EXCEPTIONS, IEEE_ARITHMETIC, and IEEE_FEATURES define five derived types”. By my count they define six derived types: three, IEEE_FLAG_TYPE, IEEE_MODES_TYPE, and IEEE_STATUS_TYPE, in IEEE_EXCEPTIONS; two, IEEE_CLASS_TYPE, and IEEE_ROUND_TYPE, in IEEE_ARITHMETIC, and one, IEEE_FEATURES_TYPE, in IEEE_FEATURES.



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