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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Upcoming gfortran 15 will contain unsigned numbers
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:26:42 -0500
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On 10/13/2024 4:52 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> Hello world,
> 
> J3 has passed https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/24/24-116.txt , a
> proposal for unsigned numbers in Fortran, in their February/March
> meeting.
> 
> Gfortran 15, to be released in the beginning of 2025, will contain
> an experimental implementation of that proposal.  The current
> development version already has that documentation, so if you
> are so inclined, you can download and compile it for yourself to
> try it out already.
> 
> This feature can be accessed by using the -funsigned flag.
> Some short documentation can be found at
> 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/Unsigned-integers.html
> 
> Test cases (also doubling as use examples) can be found at
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=tree;f=gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg
> (any file that has "unsigned" in its name).
> 
> Bug reports and comments are welcome.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Best regards
> 
> 	Thomas

Any plans to support UTF16 or UTF8 in gfortran ?

Thanks,
Lynn