[Bug fortran/32814] New: backslash zero no longer writes null in string

[jhettmer at doprad dot com]

Related to resolved bug 30278.  The handling of backslash has fundamentally
changed since 3.2.2 and earlier.  Specifically it USED to allow inserting a
null at the end of a string (CRITICAL for communicating with C) and I see now
that there is a list of honored excapes and null (\0) seems not to be one of
them.  The still large Fortran part of our application (55000 lines) contains
nearly a thousand instances of \0 in strings needed by newer C functions and
appending //char(0) everywhere is decidedly ugly as well as expensive.  I
believe this should be considered a bug.


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           Summary: backslash zero no longer writes null in string
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.1.2
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: fortran
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: jhettmer at doprad dot com


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32814