Found the following on the J3 Fortran list. I think the program below is invalid for the reasons given by Bill Long, but it has not finally decided yet (on J3). (The question/program comes from Sun)
Current status: - openf95 and sunf95 reject it - ifort, gfortran, NAG f95, and g95 accept it Bill Long writes that he tested two non-Sun compilers, of which two gave an error and two did not. Craig diged up from the standard: | Use association is defined in section 11.2.1. Host association is | covered in section 16.4.1.3. The second paragraph starts with this sentence | [411:9-10]: "If an entity that is accessed by use association has the same | nongeneric name as a host entity, the host entity is inaccessible by that | name." However, as Bill notes: | I think that issuing the error is valid. Generic interfaces merge | together their lists of specifics when more than one with the same | generic name is visible. Whether that visibility comes through host | association or use association should not matter. Craig's citation from | f03 explicitly says "nongeneric" intentionally, and does not apply in | this case. MODULE M1 INTERFACE SUBR MODULE PROCEDURE SUBR1 END INTERFACE CONTAINS SUBROUTINE SUBR1 END SUBROUTINE END MODULE M2 INTERFACE SUBR MODULE PROCEDURE SUBR2 END INTERFACE CONTAINS SUBROUTINE SUBR2 END SUBROUTINE END PROGRAM MAIN USE M1 CALL S CONTAINS SUBROUTINE S USE M2 CALL SUBR END SUBROUTINE END -- Summary: Accepts invalid: USE/host association of generics with same specifics Product: gcc Version: 4.3.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: accepts-invalid Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: fortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35476