-malign-double failure on i686-pc-linux-gnuaout

[Steve Edwards <sgedward at korime dot demon dot co dot uk>]

I am not sure if this is known or not, but I ran into a problem building an old fortran library. Taking as an example:

> cat check.f
      program check
      write(6,1000)
 1000 format('check')
      end

and building with:
gfortran -o check check.f

produces:
check

If I add -malign-double I get:
At line 2 of file check.f
Fortran runtime error: Missing initial left parenthesis in format
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$ gfortran --version
GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.3.0 20070530 (experimental)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

The fix is straightforward enough - I just have to take out -malign-double. The library I was building was last built (a long time ago) with g77 3.4.6 and I am certain this flag worked okay (although given the warning in the manual I'm not sure why it was used).

I'm running a Fedora Core #6 system (i686-pc-linux-gnuaout).

Steve
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