http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50556
--- Comment #3 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-10-29 15:17:19 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > Well, I see in the standard: [Fortran 2008] > "C553 An entity with the SAVE attribute shall be a common block, variable, > or > procedure pointer." > > And I would argue that a namelist-group-name is neither a common block, a > variable nor a procedure pointer. See also http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.fortran/browse_thread/thread/07da50d1aaf3870d - there, the argument seems to be the same, though the reference is R544. * * * >From c.l.f: > Unfortunately, I also found that gfortran has interpreted something like > namelist /cmd/ i, j, k > save cmd > to mean > namelist /cmd/ i, j, k > save i, j, k The question is whether one needs to allow it. g95 and gfortran allow the code ifort, NAG f95, g77 (!), pathf95/openf95/crayftn reject it. PGI warns "Symbol, i, appears illegally in a SAVE statement" Thus, I wouldn't mind breaking the backward compatibility.
