Failure reading infinity with list-directed format

[Tim Prince]

Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:53:28PM +0100, Steve Edwards wrote:
>   
>> Is this a bug/regression in gfortran?
>>
>>     
>
> It is neither a bug nor a regression.  It appears
> you have discovered a compiler extension in Intel
> and Sun's compilers.  Of course, these vendors may
> claim that +Infinity and +Inf are "literal constants",
> which satisfies Sec. 10.8 of the Fortran 95 standard.
>
>   
g77 certainly didn't support this "extension," so it is not a 
"regression."  Not
long ago, ifort didn't support it either, so I'm fairly certain it was 
introduced
in response to customer feature requests.  In the gnu tradition, you 
could say
"patches welcome," subject to the usual hurdles of copyright assignment 
et al.