http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50105
Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P3 |P5 Severity|normal |minor --- Comment #9 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-08-19 18:14:46 UTC --- For completeness: FORTRAN 77 had a similar wording at http://www.fortran.com/fortran/F77_std/rjcnf-13.html#sh-13.5.9 http://www.fortran.com/fortran/F77_std/rjcnf-13.html#sh-13.5.9.2.3 Bill is not convinced about Malcolm's answer: http://j3-fortran.org/pipermail/j3/2011-August/004606.html If I read it correctly, Bill thinks that one can read the standard such that "** " is correct, but thinks that the standard is ambiguous and also allows "******" which - according to his count - most compilers do and a user would expect. I think we will have at the end an interpretation request - thus, one might leave this item open until after the J3 meeting or better after the balloting of the J3 meeting edits. The next meeting is October 10-14, 2011.