------- Comment #12 from martin at mpa-garching dot mpg dot de 2006-03-09 07:12 ------- (In reply to comment #11) > OK, after some discussion on comp.lang.fortran it is clear tha END and EOR are > not error conditions. They are there to allow for example, reading in a loop > until the end of a file is reached and branching out. A true error condition > would be something like a disk failure and the like. > > So, if an application is anticipating hitting the End-of-File deliberately > then > use the END parameter. Likewise for EOR.
I agree completely for the reading case. But if I have a file open for writing and try to write 8 bytes into a 4-byte record, shouldn't we jump to the ERR= label? Unfortunately there is no support for EOR= in WRITE statements. This feels a bit like an inconsistency in the standard. > The most portable method to handle things is to use IOSTAT and test for the > conditions of interest. Yes, I think I'll suggest this to the Starlink people. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26509
