http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56459
Bug #: 56459 Summary: Wrongly rejects "TYPE(CHARACTER*1,)" (with comma) Classification: Unclassified Product: gcc Version: 4.8.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Keywords: rejects-valid Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: fortran AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: bur...@gcc.gnu.org On c.l.f., Ian Harvey pointed out that the Fortran 2008 standard allows the following. Note the ",". Cf. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.lang.fortran/W2hWVhtHmlM/discussion and http://mailman.j3-fortran.org/pipermail/j3/2013-February/006159.html TYPE(CHARACTER*1) C0 ! Accepted TYPE(CHARACTER*1,) C1 ! Wrongly rejected TYPE(CHARACTER*1,) :: C2 ! Wrongly rejected end gfortran rejects it with Error: Unclassifiable statement >From Fortran 2008: R402 type-spec is intrinsic-type-spec or derived-type-spec R403 declaration-type-spec is intrinsic-type-spec or TYPE ( intrinsic-type-spec ) or TYPE ( derived-type-spec ) or CLASS ( derived-type-spec ) or CLASS ( * ) R404 intrinsic-type-spec is INTEGER [ kind-selector ] or REAL [ kind-selector ] or DOUBLE PRECISION or COMPLEX [ kind-selector ] or CHARACTER [ char-selector ] or LOGICAL [ kind-selector ] R420 char-selector is length-selector or ... R421 length-selector is ( [ LEN = ] type-param-value ) or * char-length [ , ]