The kill intrinsic is only implemented in libgfortran for STATUS arguments of types INTEGER(4) and INTEGER(8). However, the implementation in gfc_resolve_kill_sub will attempt to link to implementations for any kind that it's given, rather than reporting an error. Thus, the following little code produces a rather unhelpful link-time error instead:
program kill2 integer(kind=1) this call kill(99999, 0, this) end debian-gfortran:~/test> ../bin-trunk/bin/gfortran kill2.f90 -o kill2 /tmp/ccKohBjB.o(.text+0x3d): In function `MAIN__': : undefined reference to `_gfortran_kill_i1_sub' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status This could be fixed with extra checks in check.c: gfc_resolve_kill_sub. -- Summary: kill intrinsic doesn't diagnose invalid argument kinds Product: gcc Version: 4.3.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: diagnostic Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: fortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: brooks at gcc dot gnu dot org http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30372