------- Comment #10 from kargl at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-07-22 19:14 ------- (In reply to comment #9) > I don't know the fortran policy on closing bug reports with regressions; is > there no chance to backport the fix to the active branches?
It isn't a gfortran policy. The general GCC policy is that only regression fixes can/should be backported. You would need to show that the code in comment #1 could be compiled with a version of gfortran that is older than 4.1.2 20061115; otherwise, this is simply a bug that finally got fixed. Additionally, there simply are too few gfortran developers to maintain 3 active branches. So, we have chosen to concentrate our effort on trunk. If a patch fixes a regression in 4.2, it may be backported but there is no guarantee. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31639
