news.texi: Document libf2c being built as a shared library.

2001-10-05  Toon Moene  <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>

	* news.texi: Document libf2c being built as a shared library.
	Use of array elements in bounds of adjustable arrays ditto.

From-SVN: r46044

diff --git a/gcc/f/ChangeLog b/gcc/f/ChangeLog
index 872834fef17704dfb25996fd2cb5f0e64e239ab2..8c02b5553748243ff715f03b0908696559e0dd9f 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/f/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/f/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-10-05  Toon Moene  <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
+
+       * news.texi: Document libf2c being built as a shared library.
+       Use of array elements in bounds of adjustable arrays ditto.
+
 2001-10-03  Toon Moene  <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
 
        * Make-lang.in: Remove reference to FORTRAN_INIT.

diff --git a/gcc/f/news.texi b/gcc/f/news.texi
index 82a94b3a9946300f3ca2021130ff02e3eae475b2..d5c149f2689b5292c932147e4b15bde5dac8fcf6 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/f/news.texi
+++ b/gcc/f/news.texi
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 @c in the standalone derivations of this file (e.g. NEWS).
 @set copyrights-news 1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001
 
-@set last-update-news 2001-06-03
+@set last-update-news 2001-10-05
 
 @include root.texi
 
@@ -155,6 +155,23 @@ The following information was last updated on @value{last-update-news}:
 @heading In development, 0.5.27, @code{GCC} 3.1 versus @code{GCC} 3.0:
 @itemize @bullet
 @ifclear USERVISONLY
+@item
+Based on work done by Juergen Pfeifer (@email{juergen.pfeifer@@gmx.net})
+libf2c is now a shared library.  One can still link in all objects with
+the program by specifying the @code{-static} option.
+
+@item
+Robert Anderson (@email{rwa@@alumni.princeton.edu}) thought up a two
+line change that enables g77 to compile such code as:
+@smallexample
+SUBROUTINE SUB(A, N)
+DIMENSION N(2)
+DIMENSION A(N(1),N(2))
+A(1,1) = 1.
+END
+@end smallexample
+Note the use of array elements in the bounds of the adjustable array A.
+
 @item
 George Helffrich (@email{george@@geo.titech.ac.jp}) implemented a change
 in substring index checking (when specifying @code{-fbounds-check})