https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78351
kargl at gcc dot gnu.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kargl at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #3 from kargl at gcc dot gnu.org --- (In reply to Dr. Kevin B. Beard from comment #0) > Created attachment 40038 [details] > Simple example - comma no longer a format field delimiter - gfortran 4.1.2 > ok, 4.4.7- fails > > Here @ NASA we often have strings to read of the form: > > #,#,#,#,..... > > and on many platforms, gfortran 4.1.2 and (most?) earlier, Intel Fortran > 16.0.3, g77-3.4.6 and most other FORTRANs, it would treat the "," as a field > delimiter during a formatted READ - for example (x1.f): > > character*80 s > s= '1,2,3,,,,' > READ(s,'(2i10)') i,j > write(6,'(2i10)') i,j > end > > would print " 1 2". > > However, 4.4.7 ("gfortran -o x1 x1.f") now (11/2016) fails with > > "Fortran runtime error: Bad value during integer read". > > I believe it worked with 4.4.7 back in 9/2016 on ScientificLinux-6.4 fine, > but there have been security patches done since then. It also fails on > 4.8.5 and 5.3.0 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 It would > be very nice to be able to restore the old behavior. > > This may be related to bug#25519. gfortran's behavior conforms to the standard while your code does not conform. Perhaps, gfortran should accept a comma as a field delimiter under -std=legacy, but preference should be to fixing the wrong code. 10.7.2.2 Integer editing The Iw and Iw.m edit descriptors indicate that the field to be edited occupies w positions, except when w is zero. When w is zero, the processor selects the field width. On input, w shall not be zero. The specified input/output list item shall be of type integer. ... On input, m has no effect. In the input field for the I edit descriptor, the character string shall be a signed-digit-string (R409), except for the interpretation of blanks. R409 signed-digit-string is [ sign ] digit-string R410 digit-string R411 sign is digit [ digit ] ... is + or Perhaps, you want list-directed formatting 10.10 List-directed formatting 10.10.1 General List-directed input/output allows data editing according to the type of the list item instead of by a format specification. It also allows data to be free-field, that is, separated by commas (or semicolons) or blanks.