Excerpts from Jose E. Marchesi's message of Oktober 14, 2025 10:13 am:
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>>> On Oct 13, 2025, at 5:05 PM, Jose E. Marchesi <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
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>>> ...
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>>>> Will change the backend to _consistently_ use options with no prefix of
>>>> any kind.
>>>
>>> There is a difficulty.
>>>
>>> Removing the a68- prefix from the front-end specific options causes two
>>> collisions with options also defined by the D front-end:
>>>
>>> -fassert
>>> -fdebug
>>
>> How about using a68 in those, which especially for debug seems
>> sensible, and avoid it elsewhere?
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> That would lead to:
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> Warnings:
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> -Wextensions
> -Wvoiding
> -Wscope
> -Whidden-declarations
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> Run-time checks:
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> -fnil-checking
> -fbounds-checking
How does -fbounds-checking differ from -fbounds-check?
Fortran defines this option, which has a generic enough description that
it could be reused.
-fcheck=[...] Specify which runtime checks are to be performed.
Though your opinion matters more as to what you end up with to control
these runtime checks.
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> Development options:
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> -fdump-modes
> -fdump-ast
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Maybe these ought to keep a68 in the name? -fa68-dump- or -fdump-a68-
Iain.
