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Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4489) Ballot on N1866
From: "Rasmussen, Craig" <crasmussen@newmexicoconsortium.org>
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It looks like I missed a minor quibble:

Pg 22, line 21:  It currently reads "if source is a null pointer or
the rank zero."  This would read better if it were "if source is a
null pointer or has zero rank".

-craig

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Rasmussen, Craig
<crasmussen@newmexicoconsortium.org> wrote:
>> On 07/11/2011 06:02 PM, John Reid wrote:
>>
>> Please answer the following question "Is N1866 ready for forwarding to
>> SC22 as the PDTR?" in one of these ways.
>>
>
> It looks like I've missed the deadline for the vote (I would have
> voted for choice 2). =A0I read N1866 carefully last week and have a few
> minor suggestions for the revised document:
>
> 1. Pg 9, line 10: I believe there is extraneous space between "A" and "sh=
all".
>
> 2. Table 5.3: Is there a reason all of the lines aren't right justified?
>
> 3. sizeof() usage: =A0The sizeof() usage in elem_len description seems
> awkward to me (for example, pg 17, line 13): =A0Consider changing to,
> for example, "elem_len shall be the number of characters in an element
> of the object times the sizeof() function applied to a scalar of the
> character type."
>
> 4. NOTE 5.7: =A0I believe the standard uses a comma before "and" in a
> list, so the note should read "... to set the rank, attribute, type,
> and element length."
>
> 5. NOTE 5.8: I believe there is a missing hyphen. =A0The end of the note
> should read "... for a Fortran assumed-shape array."
>
> 6. Pg. 20 line 32 (for example): Maybe I missed it but it's not clear
> to me from the specification of the functions in 5.3.5 that zero-based
> indexing is to be used for the bounds arrays. =A0The examples for
> CFI_section and CFI_select_part use array declarations with a lower
> bounds of 1 in Fortran but this is the least complicated choice. =A0It
> would be helpful if at least one of the examples were for an array
> pointer with lower bounds other than 1.
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>