------- Comment #3 from kargl at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-12-06 04:39 ------- (In reply to comment #2) > Reading through PR 18026 I am convinced this is a duplicate. We need to > decide > how we want to handle this situation. It looks like at least one other > compiler treats the boz as an integer and converts to real for the case of f95 > and treats it as a direct map to real for f2003. > > Should we take a vote?
My vote is gfortran is doing the correct thing. The user needs to read and understand the standard. Then, the the user can use TRANSFER() as intended by J3. In particular, a DATA statement is essentially an assignment. In an assignment the RHS is evaluated without reference to the LHS type, kind type parameter, or rank. If you want to promote a BOZ to some glorified representation of any numeric value, then you'll need to introduce BT_BOZ, and add a member to gfc_symbol to hold the BOZ string and do the conversion to the what the user wants at the last moment. This, of course, violates the independence of the RHS-LHS assumption. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34345
