https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107237
--- Comment #2 from Patrick Wallace <ptw at tpointsw dot uk> --- Many thanks for the quick response, and profound apologies for this red herring. The reason I got caught out is that the code I started with had been copy/pasted from a PDF, using Acrobat Reader. The latter is (to my surprise) capable of performing character recognition on an image of the original printed publication and had interpreted a decimal one as lowercase lima. BTW my own code invariably starts with IMPLICIT NONE and I wish I had tried this in the example!