possible bug (accepting null character as input)

[François-Xavier Coudert]

> This may not be a bug. However (I don't use Fortran myself) the author
> of the original code from which this sample is derived tells me that
> every Fortran compiler he has ever used (over a period of 20+ years)
> shows the same behaviour as the Intel compiler.

I can't find a compiler that doesn't do what you expect (gfortran excluded, 
that is).

> program testRead
> implicit none
> character(1) resp
> write (*,'('' hit return: '',$)')
> read (*,'(a)') resp
> write (*,'('' well done.'')')
> end

I filed it as 20005 in bugzilla 
(http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20005).

FX