[Bug fortran/36894] question on gfortran character*(*)

[burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #2 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org  2008-07-22 06:48 -------
Both
   character*(*) foo
   character(*) foo

are supported by gfortran. At the moment I cannot imagine a program which works
with the latter and fails with the former. If you have a complete (short!)
example, we could look into the problem, though I would not be surprised if the
code is simply invalid Fortran. Note that using either of the two lines is only
valid for dummy arguments of subroutines/functions (though g77 accepts it also
for local variables).

Thus can you provide us a complete example?

For Fortran programming questions, like Daniel, I would suggest to write to the
comp.lang.fortran newsgroup (which is also available via HTTP at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.fortran/ ).


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