[Bug fortran/20798] New: Valid program fails to assemble

["federico dot carminati at cern dot ch" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

I am linking with gfortran the following valid program

      program bug
      CHARACTER*2 KSHAP(3)
      DATA KSHAP/'A', 2*' '/
      end

and I obtain

[/Users/fca] /opt/gcc-4_0/bin/gfortran bug.f -o bug
/var/tmp//ccNLauLD.s:5:Bad Absolute Expression, absolute 0 assumed.
/var/tmp//ccNLauLD.s:5:Repeat < 0, .space ignored

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           Summary: Valid program fails to assemble
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.1.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P2
         Component: fortran
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: federico dot carminati at cern dot ch
                CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
 GCC build triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin7.8.0
  GCC host triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin7.8.0
GCC target triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin7.8.0


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20798