Because of the segfault, I assume that this is different from PR 19313. $ cat inquire-position.f character*20 chr open(7) inquire(7,position=chr) print *,chr end $ gfortran inquire-position.f $ ./a.out Segmentation fault $ gfortran -v ; gfortran -dumpmachine Using built-in specs. Configured with: ../gcc-4.0-20050102/configure --prefix=/home/zfkts --enable-languages=c,c++,f95 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.0 20050102 (experimental) ia64-unknown-linux-gnu
$ gfortran -g inquire-position.f $ gdb ./a.out GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.1post-1.20040607.52rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "ia64-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) r Starting program: /home/zfkts/Krempel/a.out Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x20000000002cee11 in strlen () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6.1 (gdb) bt #0 0x20000000002cee11 in strlen () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6.1 #1 0x2000000000052470 in *_gfortrani_cf_strcpy (dest=0x0, dest_len=0, src=0x0) at ../../../gcc-4.0-20050102/libgfortran/runtime/string.c:84 #2 0x20000000000a3890 in inquire_via_unit (u=0x600000000000a2e0) at ../../../gcc-4.0-20050102/libgfortran/io/inquire.c:166 #3 0x20000000000a48a0 in *_gfortran_st_inquire () at ../../../gcc-4.0-20050102/libgfortran/io/inquire.c:370 #4 0x4000000000000cb0 in MAIN__ () at inquire-position.f:3 #5 0x4000000000000df0 in main (argc=1, argv=0x60000fffffffa108) at ../../../gcc-4.0-20050102/libgfortran/fmain.c:18 (gdb) -- Summary: inquire(position=) segfaults at runtime Product: gcc Version: 4.0.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: libfortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19314