------- Comment #4 from jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org 2010-05-04 04:11 ------- What about this?
$ gfc -fbounds-check pr43899.f90 $ ./a.out &NMLIST NML_STRING='123456789' / At line 9 of file pr43899.f90 (unit = 7, file = 'example.nml') Fortran runtime error: Namelist object 'nml_string' exceeds length of character variable -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43899