From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Tue Dec 9 06:22:25 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom7 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom7@www2.open-std.org Received: by www2.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 7835EC178E5; Tue, 9 Dec 2008 06:22:25 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from sca-es-mail-1.sun.com (sca-es-mail-1.Sun.COM [192.18.43.132]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4961EC178D6 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2008 06:22:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from fe-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.43.129]) by sca-es-mail-1.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mB95MDr3001136 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-sfbay-09.sun.com by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0KBL00L01G4W4K00@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com> (original mail from Robert.Corbett@Sun.COM) for sc22wg5@open-std.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [129.146.84.104] by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPSA id <0KBL008NCG90I4D0@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com>; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:22:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:22:12 -0800 From: Robert Corbett Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.3778) Ballot on the technical content of the TR In-reply-to: <20081209044540.E9F0AC178E5@www2.open-std.org> To: fortran standards email list for J3 Cc: sc22wg5@open-std.org Reply-To: Robert.Corbett@Sun.COM Message-id: <493E0084.1020206@sun.com> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <20081127193527.EF00DC178D9@www2.open-std.org> <20081208024650.76234C4596C@www2.open-std.org> <20081208154207.B50ABC178E0@www2.open-std.org> <493DDCA3.3050104@sun.com> <20081209044540.E9F0AC178E5@www2.open-std.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060509 Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Van Snyder wrote: > Robert Corbett wrote: > >>I am not pleased that the proposal is making other vendors' >>extensionsto the data structures, beyond what is needed for Fortran, >>part of theFortran language. > > > > Keep in mind that the Further Interoperability with C TR affects only > interfaces with BIND(C). Vendors can handle them differently from > interfaces without BIND(C) if they choose to do so. I understand that. I also understand the advantage the proposal will give to vendors who already use the knew capabilities. I don't like Sun being put at a disadvantage relative to those vendors. Bob Corbett