https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57822
--- Comment #6 from Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq at lps dot ens.fr> --- Something such as ! { dg-do run } ! PR58722 program testit use ISO_FORTRAN_ENV implicit none integer, parameter :: j(size(real_kinds)+4)=[REAL_KINDS, [4, 4, 4, 4]] character(50) :: astring integer :: i, l, n n = 0 do i=1,size(real_kinds) if (i == 1) then write(astring, '(g0)') 1.0/real(10.0, kind=j(1)) else if (i == 2) then write(astring, '(g0)') 1.0/real(10.0, kind=j(2)) else if (i == 3) then write(astring, '(g0)') 1.0/real(10.0, kind=j(3)) else if (i == 4) then write(astring, '(g0)') 1.0/real(10.0, kind=j(4)) end if l = index(astring, 'E') if (l /= 0) then print *, i, l, trim(astring) n = n + l end if end do if (n /= 0) call abort end program should do the trick. Note that the output of this test on powerpc-apple-darwin9 r220529 is 3 38 .999999999999999999999999999999996919E-0001 so it seems that the test will fail on powerpc* using the "IBM" REAL(16).