With the following test program gfortran hangs, so also g77, and ifort gives a
severe error, out of memory.
$ cat dev_zero.f
character*20 foo
integer i
open(10,file="/dev/zero")
read(10, '(A)') foo
write(10,'(A)') "Hello"
rewind(10)
read(10, '(A)') foo
100 continue
end
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Summary: Reading from /dev/zero hangs
Product: gcc
Version: 4.3.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: P3
Component: libfortran
AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
ReportedBy: jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org
GCC host triplet: x86-64-pc-Linux
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31256