[Bug fortran/80666] character length parameter fails if declaration order incorrect

[tkoenig at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80666

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|WAITING                     |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |tkoenig at gcc dot gnu.org
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #10 from Thomas Koenig <tkoenig at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Jos de Kloe from comment #8)

> I understand that you wish to enforce "standards", but removing a
> "Non-standard extension" that was present in older gfortran versions is
> wrong in my opinion. You should at least leave a commandline option or
> environment switch to allow users to compile legacy code that worked fine
> before.

If we were to remove something complex and sometimes essential,
like the CONVERT specifier in the OPEN statement, I would agree
with you.

In this case, the fix to the source code is quite trivial:
Put the declarations in the right order. I've done that,
when I found that g77 pointed out the same error in legacy code
that I maintained.

Resolving as WONTFIX.