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JLW informal report on the Vienna WG5 meeting

WG5 met July 21-25, 1997, in Vienna, Austria; seven national = delegations attended: Austria, Finland, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the UK, = and the US. The results of the meeting are recorded in the resolutions, = WG5-N1290. (Since I have just returned from Austria, this report = is later than normal and therefore the following information may be = "old news".)

At this meeting WG5:

advanced the technical reports on IEEE exception handling = and allocatable components to the next level of ISO processing,=20
authorized a revision of part 2 (varying length strings),=20
completed the conditional compilation CD document for part 3 (WG5-= N1301),=20
revised the WG5 strategic plan (WG5-N1287),=20
responded to the J3 request for clarification on the = interval arithmetic requirement,=20
requested J3 to take over the work on C interoperability.

The main changes to the strategic plan were to (a) change the time = frame for part 1 revisions from "5 years" to "5-10 years" and = (b) strengthen the wording regarding mandatory and optional parts of = the Fortran standard. The strategic plan now more clearly says that all = of part 1 is mandatory (e.g., no subsets) and that all the other parts = are optional.

WG5 requests that the interval arithmetic requirement be developed in = such a way that it need not impose significant costs for = implementations, subject only to the mandatory/optional constraints of = the strategic plan, and that J3 may opt to make it an optional part = (e.g., part 4), provided it does the work in the Fortran 2000 time = frame. (The main effects of this action are to (a) rule out an = intrinsic data type in part 1 and (b) open up the part 4 option.)

The request regarding C interoperability was the eleventh-hour surprise = of this meeting; J3's options are to (a) accept responsibility for = the technical report, (b) accept responsibility for the work, not as a = TR but as a Fortran 2000 requirement, and (c) decline the request.

The next WG5 meeting is scheduled for June 8-12, 1998, in = Trolhatten, Sweden.

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