the PRESENT test of an optional variable returns TRUE in both of these calls
$ cat c.F; gfortran c.F ; ./a.out PROGRAM MAIN REAL A INTEGER I CALL SUB(A,I) CALL SUB(A) END SUBROUTINE SUB(A,I) REAL :: A INTEGER, OPTIONAL :: I IF (PRESENT(I)) THEN PRINT *,'YES' ELSE PRINT *,'NO' END IF END YES YES c.f intel gives $ ifort c.F ; ./a.out YES NO gfortran behaves correctly with an explicit INTERFACE, but that should not be required (as far as I know) Olav -- Summary: present returns wrong value of optional variables Product: gcc Version: 4.2.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: blocker Priority: P3 Component: fortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: vahtras at pdc dot kth dot se GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34260