Anyone have a clue ...

[Jerry DeLisle]

On 10/22/2015 10:29 AM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 05:28:49PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
>> what the code in lines 718-733 in decl.c are for?  If
>> I surround the block of code with #if 0 ... #endif, I
>> do not trigger a failure in the testsuite.  So, it appears
>> that the syntax error that is being tested is
>> not represented by a test case.
>>
> 
> Little svn spelunking showed that the lines in question
> and the chunk of code at the 'syntax:' label were introduced
> by r129685 on 2007-10-27.  At this time, two testcases were
> added as r129686, 2007-10-27, argument_checking_[7,8].f90.
> 
> It seems that checking the charlen was improved twice
> r139116, 2008-08-14 and r139425, 2008-08-22 with adjustments
> to argument_checking_7.f90 to account for new error messages.
> 
> So, the lines in question have been dead code since Aug 2008.
> I will be reaping those lines shortly.
> 
 Just now reading my mail, that was a long time ago. ;)

Jerry