http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52101
--- Comment #3 from John.Harper at msor dot vuw.ac.nz 2012-02-03 20:51:10 UTC --- On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, burnus at gcc dot gnu.org wrote: > Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 07:22:28 +0000 > From: burnus at gcc dot gnu.org <gcc-bugzi...@gcc.gnu.org> > To: john.har...@vuw.ac.nz > Subject: [Bug fortran/52101] Obsolescence warning for non-obs. feature > character name*length > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52101 > > Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED > CC| |burnus at gcc dot gnu.org > Resolution| |INVALID > > --- Comment #1 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-02-03 > 07:22:28 UTC --- > (In reply to comment #0) >> Gfortran 4.6.2 -std=f95 says a declaration character name*length is >> obsolescent. IMHO it is not; the obsolescent form is character*length name. >> >> character greet*11 >> 1 >> Warning: Obsolescent feature: Old-style character length at (1) > > See Fortran 95 standard, > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranStandards > http://j3-fortran.org/doc/standing/archive/007/97-007r2/pdf/97-007r2.pdf > in Section "B.2 Obsolescent features": > > "The obsolescent features are those features of Fortran 90 that were redundant > and for which better methods were available in Fortran 90. Section 1.7.2 > describes the nature of the obsolescent features. The obsolescent features in > this standard are the following: > ... > (9) CHARACTER* form of CHARACTER declaration - see B.2.7." > > > Closed as INVALID. > > -- > Configure bugmail: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You reported the bug. > I agree that CHARACTER* declarations are obsolescent but I still claim that putting * after the variable name instead of after CHARACTER is not, presumably because that form of declaration is still needed for something like CHARACTER a*2, b*4 -- John Harper, School of Mathematics Statistics and Operations Research Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand e-mail john.har...@vuw.ac.nz phone (+64)(4)463 5276 fax (+64)(4)463 5045
