>>> I'm slightly inclined to kindly invite the user to switch to >>> STORAGE_SIZE+SIZE instead. Any other opinion? >> >> Since the SIZEOF intrinsic has been around for some time in gfortran >> (before STORAGE_SIZE was available), I would say we should at least >> continue to support it for backward compatibility. And I guess we >> should also make it behave reasonably for all inputs. However, it >> might be worth to add a note in the documentation that STORAGE_SIZE >> and SIZE should be used instead in standard-conforming code. >> > I thought about it again, and what I'm actually in favor of is > diagnosing by default _all_ extensions having a standard replacement.
By 'diagnosing' you mean to give a warning? This can already be accomplished by compiling with "-std=f2008 -Wintrinsics-std", I guess (not by default, though). Using only -std=f2008 currently results in errors like: undefined reference to `sizeof_' Cheers, Janus
