https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62296
--- Comment #6 from Harald Anlauf <anlauf at gmx dot de> --- (In reply to Dominique d'Humieres from comment #5) > (In reply to Harald Anlauf from comment #4) > > (In reply to Harald Anlauf from comment #3) > > > One might be able to do better on any reasonable Unix/Linux system. > > > > Replying to myself: Intel has changed/fixed their implementation of > > EXECUTE_COMMAND_LINE in version 15.1, and it appears to work > > reasonably now. > > What does it mean for gfortran? The remaining issue for cmdstat, reduced from comment #1, can be seen as follows: integer :: stat, cstat character(len=255) :: cmdmsg stat = 0; cstat = 0; cmdmsg = "" call execute_command_line ("/nosuchfile",exitstat=stat, cmdstat=cstat, cmdmsg=cmdmsg) print *, stat, cstat, "'", trim (cmdmsg), "'" stat = 0 call execute_command_line ("/nosuchfile",exitstat=stat) print *, stat end produces with gfortran: sh: /nosuchfile: No such file or directory 127 0 '' sh: /nosuchfile: No such file or directory 127 and with ifort: sh: /nosuchfile: No such file or directory 0 124 'Invalid command supplied to EXECUTE_COMMAND_LINE' sh: /nosuchfile: No such file or directory forrtl: severe (124): Invalid command supplied to EXECUTE_COMMAND_LINE cmdstat=0 is not a useful return value if the command cannot be executed. The other cases from comment #0 appear correct.