http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48636
--- Comment #13 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-05-04 17:30:31 UTC --- (In reply to comment #12) > Perhaps frontend could help us here since the descriptors are probably > constant after they are initialized, or is there way to change existing > descriptor? Only if the dummy/formal argument is a pointer or an allocatable. Regarding ipa-cp, wasn't there a problem with "fn spec" (cf. PR 45579)? And many Fortran procedures have this attribute. > This seems to be mostly due to I/O routines structures that gets packed > later. We really need to start reusing them ... (Cf. PR 48419, PR 34705, and http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-02/msg01762.html )