In the following, the assignment to str gets truncated twice. gfortran -Wall does not give any warning.
Expected: As similar warning as NAG gives: Warning: trunc.f90, line 2: Initialisation expression for STR truncated At least the first initalization should be detected, possibly also the second. Such error messaging works for real, dimension(3) :: [1.0, 2.0, 3.0] at both places: Error: different shape for Array assignment at (1) on dimension 1 (2/3) --------------- program test character(2) :: c = 'AAA' c = 'ABC' print *, c end program test --------------- -- Summary: Compile time warn for: character(2) :: str = 'ABC' (expression truncated) Product: gcc Version: unknown Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: fortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: tobias dot burnus at physik dot fu-berlin dot de http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27996