[patch, libgfortran] PR31052 Bad IOSTAT values when readings NAMELISTs past EOF

Steve Kargl sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sat Mar 10 07:02:00 GMT 2007


On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:43:01PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> 
> This problem was not quite what I originally thought.  The function 
> test_endfile was setting the endfile flag to AT_ENDFILE for the test case 
> provided in the PR.
> 
> Commenting out test_endfile in st_rewind resolves the test case but 
> regresses dev_null.f90.  All other test cases past.  So, it appears that 
> test_endfile is needed for the special case when rewinding /dev/null.  This 
> seems weird to me to begin with, but how does one determine that a file is 
> /dev/null?
> 

I haven't read the PR nor your patch.  But, if
someone is trying to rewind /dev/null, he/she
is an idiot.  If it was me, I'd close the PR
with a rather biting comment about stupidity.

-- 
Steve



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