gfortran, ncar and blockdata_test failures

[Tobias Schlüter]

Tobias Schlüter wrote:
> I don't think supporting that kind of ugliness should be a priority for 
> gfortran.

I wanted to say two more things:
1) a patch that makes this work without introducing ugly hacks will very 
likely be accepted.
2) thanks for the detailed explanation, at least I now understand how 
the EXTERNAL statements could have made a difference when those ancient 
codes were created.

Cheers,
- Tobi