Summary for NIST bugs

[Tim Prince]

At 02:58 PM 12/28/2004, FX Coudert wrote:

>Thanks for the PR numbers I didn't find.
>
>>>* Finally, I have reduced the failure of FM912
>>
>>Good luck, I didn't understand what they were doing :-)
>
>This is the reduced test case I managed to get (without comment, it's 12 
>lines, which I guess is not so bad):
>       PROGRAM FM912
>       IMPLICIT NONE
>       CHARACTER STR*120
>       OPEN(FILE='FOO',UNIT=24,ACCESS='DIRECT',RECL=120,FORM='FORMATTED')
>C   WRITES RECORDS 1, 2, AND 3
>       WRITE(UNIT=24,REC=1,FMT=4126)
>4126  FORMAT('AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA',//, 10HHOLLERITH , T15, 'ONE', 10X,
>      1       TL5, 'TWO', TR5, 'THREE', :, 'LAST')
>C   READS RECORD 3
>       READ(UNIT=24,REC=3,FMT=4127) STR
>4127  FORMAT(A120)
>       PRINT *, STR
>       CLOSE(UNIT=24)
>       END
>
>It still exhibits the failure, but I don't really know how to reduce it 
>any further. I am scared by the term "HOLLERITH", which has always been 
>black magic to me, so I didn't want to work further along this way. 
>Perhaps someone will recognise a bug or will be able to reduce it further.
>
>--
>FX

Here is sequential write on a direct access file, which looks difficult to 
support.  Then there is the question of how much value is there in 
supporting a combination of Hollerith, which has not been supported by 
standards for 25 years, along with syntax which was not standard until more 
recently.


Tim Prince