Release to-do item

[Carl Ollivier-Gooch]

Tim Tautges wrote:
> I question whether this is necessary.  We don't have equivalent action 
> items for other upcoming language standards.  We do have separate 
> versions of fortran tests for 77 and 90, but only because 90 enables 
> free source format.  Are there any presentation-like features enabled 
> with 03 that justify a separate test?

Well, 2003 is a -current- standard, rather than upcoming.  And Fortran
standard changes are bigger these days than other languages.

> On the standards thing, do you know whether they've resolved things like 
> case and underscores in those interoperability features?

Yes.  Specifically, it appears that you can label a function as mapping
to a C function -and- specify the mangled name that you want (i.e., no
mangling, though I haven't read carefully enough to know whether this is
the default or not).

Carl

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