------- Comment #16 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-04-01 10:17 ------- (In reply to comment #15) > However, the following program without typespec in the array constructor also > fails (according to my judging what it should do)
Different compilers give different output for this one, but this is no problem as the program is invalid. "gfortran -fbounds-check" shows the problem: Fortran runtime error: Different CHARACTER lengths (4/5) in array constructor That is the reason why (/ typespec :: element-list /) is needed. How long should be each element for (/ "a", "bb", "ccc" /) ? One, two, three or ... characters? One could argue that is should match the longest, but this is an arbitrary choice and makes the run-time array construction slower. Actually, with the Intel compiler, 's, "test"' and '"test", s' produce different results ;-) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27997
