https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37173
--- Comment #3 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Francois-Xavier Coudert from comment #2) > Long overdue But now changed as the current wording (seemingly as of F2008): "For an intrinsic assignment statement where the variable is of type character, if expr has a different kind type parameter, each character c in expr is converted to the kind type parameterof the variable by ACHAR(IACHAR(c), KIND(variable))" See http://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/14/14-007r2.pdf, "7.2.1.3 Interpretation of intrinsic assignments", paragraph 11. We still might add a -std=f2008 check there.