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

[Satish Balay]

Well it should atleast bite for functions that have 2 char arguments. Perhaps
none of the tests are using these routines..

Satish

On Wed, 2 May 2018, Jed Brown wrote:

> 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.
> >> 
>