* gfortran.texi (Old-style kind specifications): Document

special handling of old-style kind specifiers for COMPLEX.
* decl.c (gfc_match_old_kind_spec): Document kind/bytesize
assumptions for COMPLEX in comment.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@122599 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi b/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi
index 30a84c77eb7..3c185630967 100644
--- a/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi
+++ b/gcc/fortran/gfortran.texi
@@ -840,14 +840,18 @@ look like:
 @smallexample
       TYPESPEC*size x,y,z
 @end smallexample
+@noindent
 where @code{TYPESPEC} is a basic type (@code{INTEGER}, @code{REAL},
-etc.), and where @code{size} is a byte count corresponding to a valid
-kind for that type. The statement then declares @code{x}, @code{y} and
-@code{z} to be of type @code{TYPESPEC} with the appropriate kind. This
-is equivalent to the standard conforming declaration
+etc.), and where @code{size} is a byte count corresponding to the
+storage size of a valid kind for that type.  (For @code{COMPLEX}
+variables, @code{size} is the total size of the real and imaginary
+parts.)  The statement then declares @code{x}, @code{y} and @code{z} to
+be of type @code{TYPESPEC} with the appropriate kind.  This is
+equivalent to the standard-conforming declaration
 @smallexample
       TYPESPEC(k) x,y,z
 @end smallexample
+@noindent
 where @code{k} is equal to @code{size} for most types, but is equal to
 @code{size/2} for the @code{COMPLEX} type.