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request for a better error message
- From: Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju at gmail dot com>
- To: gfortran <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:35:52 -0400
- Subject: request for a better error message
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- Reply-to: Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju at gmail dot com>
Hi
Sometimes the error messages generated by gfortran are very concise
and is difficult to figure for the casual eye. In particular consider
the following case
program initialize
implicit none
integer, parameter :: DP = kind(1.0d0)
real(DP) :: array1(1:3)
! The following statement is not standard conforming.
! But the error generated is very cryptic and difficult to understand.
array1 = (/ 2.3_dp, 3.4, 7.1 /)
end program initialize
When compiled with
$gfortran -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i386-linux
Configured with: ../gcc/configure --prefix=/tmp/gfortran-20050425/irun
--enable-languages=c,f95 --host=i386-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.0 20050425 (experimental)
$gfortran -static initialize.f90
In file initialize.f90:8
array1 = (/ 2.3_dp, 3.4, 7.1 /)
1
Error: Element in REAL(8) array constructor at (1) is REAL(4)
Along with the above error message, if we can add aline saying that,
"the elements in an array constructor should be of the same type" then
it would be very obvious for the user to figure out the mistake.
What do others think?
raju
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