g77.f-torture/execute/6367.f

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:41:37PM +0200, Toon Moene wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> >This test is for a bug in the Fortran I/O library, which has been
> >there for at least as long as the Fortran compiler has been part of
> >the official source tree, and is not easy to fix (the relevant code
> >being a pile of spaghetti and action at a distance).  Can we mark it
> >XFAIL?
> 
> That's nonsense - it has been there since April 19, as you can easily 
> check for yourself.

I meant the bug, not the test case.  (Or did it really work prior to
April 19?  When I tried to debug this, it looked quite old and
entrenched.)

> I'm going to fix this problem as soon as we enter Stage 3 (or when I 
> come back from Vegas - the 162th Fortran committee meeting, whichever is 
> first).

In that case I withdraw the suggestion.  I had thought there were no
plans by anyone to fix the bug in the 3.3 timeframe.

zw