http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53035
--- Comment #6 from Norman S. Clerman <norm.clerman at gmail dot com> 2012-04-27 12:50:47 UTC --- Hello, Thanks to everyone for following up on this. I was very used to seeing messages that deferred length characters are not yet supported. Therefore, when I saw the internal compiler error message, I thought it was caused by some other problem. I see now that it is an existing one. I hope I did not seem too severe in my messages. I know many value the development work being done on gfortran. (I recently attended a webinar given by Prof. Damian Rouson on object-oriented scientific programming using modern Fortran, and gfortran was the compiler used.) I am curious: How much does it cost to fix a specific bug? Is there a fixed charge? I any case, I'll jump back into using gfortran whenever the current problems are remedied. Before I added many modern Fortran features to my code, I achieved some really impressive results using the compiler when I re-factored one of my main applications using OpenMP. Enjoy your weekend. Norm