From Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk Thu Jan 23 18:16:23 1997 Received: from oxmail4.ox.ac.uk (oxmail4.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.33]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA10570 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 18:16:10 +0100 Received: from ermine.ox.ac.uk by oxmail4 with SMTP (PP) with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 17:14:06 +0000 Received: from [163.1.85.1] (com1.etrc.ox.ac.uk [163.1.85.1]) by ermine.ox.ac.uk (1.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA27634 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 17:15:08 GMT X-Sender: mellis@ermine.ox.ac.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 17:18:33 +0000 To: sc22wg5 From: Miles Ellis Subject: Informal Review of Interoperability PDTR The draft PDTR (Provisional Draft Technical Report! - equivalent to CD for a standard) for Interoperability between Fortran and C has been through several versions and the time is fast approaching when we should send it to SC22 for its first PDTR ballot. The latest version of this document is N1237, which has been on the server for a few days now. As is the case for the draft CD for Conditional Compilation, it is not proposed to allow any full committee time to discuss this but, instead, to have an evening meeting (Monday) of the Development Body (plus anyone else interested) to resolve any outstanding issues and to produce one or more draft resolutions regarding the next step. As I have pointed out in an earlier message, interoperability with C could be of crucial importance in dealing with issues of internationalization - a topic which SC22 requires us to address in all future standards. Michael Hennecke, the Project Editor, has asked to have an informal ballot on the current document, along the same lines as the one I initiated the other day for the draft Conditional Compilation CD, in order to provide additional input to the Monday evening meeting. Please read the draft and then reply to me by email as follows NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY 5TH FEBRUARY. (Note that whether you copy your informal ballot to the whole WG5 list is up to you. It might be helpful, but you may wish to keep your coments conficential - at least until after the ballot closes.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Informal Ballot on N1237 (Draft Technical Report on Interoperability between Fortran and C) __________ I believe that the current draft is ready for | YES | NO | submission to SC22 for its first PDTR ballot |_____|____| If NO, please provide details of what changes you wish to see made in order that the document will be suitable for submission to SC22 for balloting. (signed) .......................... (date) .......................... Return to Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk to arrive no later than 2359 GMT on Wednesday 5th February 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Miles Ellis Director: Educational Technology Resources Centre University of Oxford, 37 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, ENGLAND Telephone: +44 1865 270528 Fax: +44 1865 270527 Email: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk WWW: http://www.etrc.ox.ac.uk/Personal/Miles/Miles_Ellis.html