[Bug fortran/36582] Namelist I/O error: Bogus "Cannot match namelist object"

["burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #6 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-06-21 08:32 -------
> I am not sure what is meant by "regression".

Regression means that it used to work in a previous version of gfortran and
someone managed to break it. This is especially bad as code which worked before
then stops working. This is the reason why all Priority 1 (and possibly P2)
regressions need to be fixed or downgraded before any new GCC release is done.

Regressions are also the only bugs which may be fixed for minor releases (e.g.
for the next 4.3.x version), though exceptions are made for serious bugs
especially if the fix is algorithmically simple. (Otherwise not as by fixing
one thing, one might create another bug -> a regression.)

> Am I correct in assuming that you do not regard it as an error?

No, if it is valid (ISO standard) Fortran then we definitely want to fix it.
(If it is a vendor extension, we only might fix it.) In your case it seems to
be valid Fortran and I believe it will be fixed soonish, though possibly only
for GCC 4.4.0 and not for 4.3.2 [or 4.2.x].


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