------- Comment #4 from milan at cmm dot ki dot si 2007-02-04 00:13 ------- OK, maybe gfortran is right. It doesn't make much sense to me, but this is what I found from wikipedia links in its fortran entry:
"Variables and arrays in common blocks can appear in EQUIVALENCE statements but this has the effect of bringing all the associated items into the block. They can be used to extend the contents of the block upwards, subject to the rules for common block length, but not downwards." So it seems that equivalence can change the size of common block :-( In the next statement it also says that equivalence is mainly used to brake the rules of fortran :-? So I am basically willing to give up on this and never touch any equivalence stuff in the future :-) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30689
