------- Comment #4 from jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-04-14 03:10 ------- My interpretation of the standard as quoted in the original post.
The value of POSITION can only be APPEND if we are positioned just before the EOF record or if there is no EOF record and the position is at it's terminating point. In the case given, there is an EOF record, so that rules that part out. The question then is after the first read, what is the position? The position after the first read is just before the EOF record. So the POSITION in this case should be APPEND. To fix this, we can have the INQUIRE statement attempt to read one more byte. If it is successful, we back up one byte and report ASIS. If we get an EOF trying to read the one more byte, the we report APPEND. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31532
