segfault with gfortran > 4.0.3

[Steve Kargl]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 02:39:10PM +1000, John Pye wrote:

> Regarding the legal side of this, I can assure you that I have obtained
> appropriate permission to post the code in question.

Maybe others can help, but I can't afford to have some developer
claim ownership of my private codes.  I don't care if you have
permission in an undisclosed email, I have no information concerning
the actual license on the code, and the developer could contact
fortran@ without a middle man.

> I do understand that there are issues here with regard to the GNU
> philosophy etc etc, but I also think that I have found a genuine and
> serious bug here that needs to be fixed.

This has nothing to do with the GNU philosophy.  I personally
prefer the BSD philosophy; in that if I give code away then
it can be used by anyone provide they do not claim to have
written the code or sue me.

Yes, there are bugs in gfortran.  We're trying to fix them
as fast as we can.  However, we need unencumbered bug reports
to (IMHO) protect outselves.

-- 
Steve