https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90536
--- Comment #4 from Jonathan Ravens <j.ravens.nz at gmail dot com> --- (In reply to Thomas Koenig from comment #2) > Hm, another question: Which gfortran version do you use? > If your version is _really_ old, it might not yet have > the -Wno-conversion flag. "gfortran -v" gives "gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36) (GCC)" and it does support -Wno-conversion, so that's a workaround for now, thankyou. I take Dominuque's point that initialising a byte to something greater than 127 is not OK, but the warnings for setting a byte value to (eg) 6 are not right, as you pointed out. Thanks.