http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53796
--- Comment #10 from Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-06-30 00:32:29 UTC --- For completeness, in the case I give in Comment #9, I get Operating system error: Cannot allocate memory Memory allocation failed I have instrumented a few places to see what we are getting with the original test case included here: integer(kind=8) :: s, r open(unit=1, file='testsize.f90', status='old') inquire(unit=1, size=s, recl=r) print *, 'size=', s, ' recl=', r end And I get: $ ./a.out In init_units() max_offset set to 4294967295 In newunit(): 4294967295 Ping! recl=4294967295 size= 135 recl= -1 This confirms that we are setting the unit recl to a large number which is printed as -1 when using signed output, but unsigned is what we might expect. max_offset is calculated at run time as follows: /* Calculate the maximum file offset in a portable manner. max will be the largest signed number for the type gfc_offset. set a 1 in the LSB and keep a running sum, stopping at MSB-1 bit. */ max_offset = 0; for (i = 0; i < sizeof (max_offset) * 8 - 1; i++) max_offset = max_offset + ((gfc_offset) 1 << i); printf("max_offset set to %u\n", max_offset); I think we can decide what to do differently after we get Comment #7 feedback. In the meantime, I will be looking at what we are doing wrong in the case of Comment #9, maybe a separate bug.