Need confirmation PR24459 is NOT-A-BUG

[Jerry DeLisle]

While driving home from work today, it dawned on me that I don't think this PR 
is a bug.

 From buzilla, given the following program:

       program diag
       INTEGER nd
       PARAMETER ( nd = 5 )
       CHARACTER*(8) names(nd,nd)
       NAMELIST / diags /  names
       OPEN(UNIT=20,FILE='diag.nml',STATUS='OLD')
       READ(20,NML=diags)
       WRITE(*,NML=diags)
       STOP
       END

With the nml file as follows:

  &diags
    names(1,1) = 'ETAN    ','ETANSQ  ','DETADT2 ','PHIBOT  ','PHIBOTSQ',
/

My interpretation is that the names qualifier (1,1) is asking for exactly one 
data item.  Providing more is contrary to F95 standard, less is OK.

So gfortran happily fills the request and starts looking for the next object in 
the file, which does not exist and so a runtime error message is given correctly.

   At line 8 of file diag.f
   Fortran runtime error: Cannot match namelist object name 'etansq

IFORT happily accepts the input and gives the following:

  &DIAGS
  NAMES   = ETAN    ETANSQ  DETADT2 PHIBOT  PHIBOTSQ

  /

As if it is ignoring the qualifier.

I need some consensus on this before I put any more effort on it.

Regards,

Jerry