Variable Expression Formats

[Steve Kargl]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:44:34PM -0700, Eskandar Ensafi wrote:
> Actually, g77 only has half-hearted support for this feature.

No.  g77 does not half-hearted support.  It has no support
for this feature.  The fact that g77 diagnosis the nonconforming
code is benefit.

> It really needs to be improved in order to be compatible with
> code being ported from Lahey (lf95), Portland Group (pgf77),
> Sun (f77), Intel (ifort) and the vast legacy of VAX-compatible
> Fortran compilers and the stable Fortran code base handed
> down from DEC to Compaq to HP to, finally, Intel.

You can submit a change-request with bugzilla, but this is
probably going to be way down the list of things that need
to be implemented.  Of course, if you have a patch, it will
raise its visibility.

Personally, I think nonconforming code (like you posted)
should be fixed to use an internal write to a character
string.

-- 
Steve