[Patch, gfortran] common blocks getting mangled in nested modules
Paul Thomas
paulthomas2@wanadoo.fr
Sat Aug 20 01:51:00 GMT 2005
Richard,
> My apologies if this is off the point and is obvious to all. But I
> have run into people who forget parts of it - particularly the bit
> about different instances of a common having different variable names.
> And I run into a lot of people (including several on J3) who keep
> forgetting that USE accessibility relates only to names and not to the
> underlying objects. It seems safer to belabor the point than to
> possibly let a misunderstanding propagate.
Apologies are certainly not necessary. As it happens, I was well aware
of this. However, I have been reading the standard quite carefully to
ensure compliance and have learned much that I did not know before.
gfortran is less broken than it was but I am sharply aware of what
remains to be done!
Cheers
Paul T
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