[petsc-dev] GCC8 Fortran length changes from int to size_t

[Jed Brown]

Is the length passed in registers and incorrectly using the lower half
of the register provides the int part?

Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

> hm - I have gfortran-8 on my laptop - but haven't seen any testsuite regressions due to this change.
>
> Satish
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2018, Jed Brown wrote:
>
>> See Fortran Language Issues.
>> 
>>   https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/porting_to.html
>> 
>> We'll have to test for this (probably compiler version) and change the
>> PETSC_MIXED_LEN / PETSC_END_LEN to use size_t instead of int.
>>