[PATCH, fortran] character length (PR fortran/21730)

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:38:19PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	Gfortran currently assigns an initializer to a symbol if the two
> are conforming, but character initializers are not truncated or padded to
> match a fixed character length target.  This patch calls
> gfc_set_constant_character_len() to adjust the initializer so that it
> conforms to the target character length.
> 
> Bootstrapped.  Okay if no regressions?
> 
> Thanks, David
> 

David,

Do you have a testcase that fails without this patch?
I'm assuming you are fixing something like the following

   character(len=10) :: a = '12345'

This becomes a = '12345     '.

-- 
Steve