[Bug fortran/50937] STAT option with ALLOCATE statement on large arrays

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50937

--- Comment #9 from Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl.washington.edu> 2011-10-31 21:02:52 UTC ---
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 08:17:51PM +0000, fwi at inducks dot org wrote:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50937
> 
> --- Comment #8 from fwi at inducks dot org 2011-10-31 20:17:51 UTC ---
> I do not(In reply to comment #7)
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 07:25:38PM +0000, fwi at inducks dot org wrote:
> > Yes, the problem of integer overflow that Janne mentioned has
> > been corrected.
> 
> Great.
> 
> I indeed do not know everything about the OS and what it does when I "allocate"
> an array. But that's exactly the purpose of a programming language like
> Fortran, an abstraction that should be "good enough" for programing without
> having to know everything about the OS.
> Secondly, users are sometimes better than programmers at telling them if
> something is really useful or not. In that case, the question is: what is the
> purpose of the STAT flag in an allocate STATEMENT if it won't give you any
> reasonable indication if the array you have can be used or not.
> 

Use a newer version of gfortran 4.1.2 and 4.4.3 are old.  Install
4.6.2 and see what happens.  You've been told twice that the 
integer overflow has been fixed.