$ cat devnull-readback.f character*20 foo open(10,file="/dev/null") write(10,'(A)') "Hello" rewind(10) read(10,'(A)',end=100) foo print *,foo call abort 100 continue end $ gfortran devnull-readback.f $ ./a.out Hello Aborted $ gfortran -v ; gfortran -dumpmachine Using built-in specs. Configured with: ../gcc-4.0-20050116/configure --prefix=/home/zfkts --enable-languages=c,f95 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.0.0 20050116 (experimental) ia64-unknown-linux-gnu $ g77 devnull-readback.f $ ./a.out
Not really serious, but amusing :-) Thomas -- Summary: reading back from /dev/null Product: gcc Version: 4.0.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor 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=19478