[J3] Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain an implementation of unsigned numbers

[Steven G. Kargl]

See Section 5.3 of the gfortran manual, "Experimental features
for Fortran 202Y".  In particular, 5.3.1 "Unsigned integers".
Users do read the manual, right?

Most of those "gfortran-ism", if not all, come from supporting
codes with roots in vendor lock-in of days of yore.

-- 
steve

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 03:26:50PM +0000, Jeff Hammond via J3 wrote:
> I strongly encourage gfortran to issue a warning when this option is used that the code is not portable.
> 
> I have spent the past year removing gfortran-isms from HPC codes, in order to get them to compile with flang-new.  I am tired of Fortran users deciding that “compiles with gfortran” = “standard compliant”.  It hurts our ecosystem and undermines the purpose of WG5 when we encourage such behavior.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> From: J3 <j3-bounces at mailman.j3-fortran.org> on behalf of Brad Richardson via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org>
> Date: Monday, 14. October 2024 at 17.54
> To: j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org>
> Cc: Brad Richardson <everythingfunctional at protonmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [J3] Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain an implementation of unsigned numbers
> External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
> 
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> I appreciate the gfortran developers experimenting and prototyping the
> features they are interested. However, you may want to be aware that
> the specific proposal (24-116), was not approved for the F202Y worklist
> (https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwg5-fortran.org%2FN2201-N2250%2FN2234.txt&data=05%7C02%7Cjehammond%40nvidia.com%7C804e2e8493454c18652e08dcec602389%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C638645144889472870%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=cRhaxSNCO6cge0BSzczQgMDV4%2Fp2BRpWQuXO1LzxpFI%3D&reserved=0<https://wg5-fortran.org/N2201-N2250/N2234.txt>). At any rate, it will
> be interesting to see how this works out.
> 
> Regards,
> Brad
> 
> On Sun, 2024-10-13 at 13:08 +0200, Thomas König via J3 wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > you may be interested to know that the upcoming release of Gfortran
> > 15
> > (due in early 2025) will include an experimental implementation of
> > 24-116.txt, the unsigned number proposal. This is already part of the
> > current development version, and is selected via the -funsigned
> > option.
> > The only major part missing at the moment is ISO_Fortran_binding.h .
> >
> > Some preliminary documentation can be found at
> > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgcc.gnu.org%2Fonlinedocs%2Fgfortran%2FUnsigned-integers.html&data=05%7C02%7Cjehammond%40nvidia.com%7C804e2e8493454c18652e08dcec602389%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C638645144889492223%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4NVkMQcMN2%2FgF7EX7pGOJcowbP%2FJ6j3QpuzKDVrGPdw%3D&reserved=0<https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Unsigned-integers.html> ,
> > this will be extended before the release.
> >
> > Test cases, which can also serve as example use cases, can be found
> > at
> > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgcc.gnu.org%2Fgit%2F%3Fp%3Dgcc.git%3Ba%3Dtree%3Bf%3Dgcc%2Ftestsuite%2Fgfortran.dg&data=05%7C02%7Cjehammond%40nvidia.com%7C804e2e8493454c18652e08dcec602389%7C43083d15727340c1b7db39efd9ccc17a%7C0%7C0%7C638645144889506152%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vwewnzDRsuxarWHikh3312%2BJWzYmifvDS%2BBZTKVjvTU%3D&reserved=0<https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=tree;f=gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg>
> > (any file with "unsigned" in the name).
> >
> > Anybody who feels like compiling the current gcc development version
> > can
> > try this out already. Bug reports and comments welcome!
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> >         Thomas

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Steve
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