------- Comment #1 from tobias dot burnus at physik dot fu-berlin dot de
2006-04-25 17:24 -------
Post scriptum:
I actually see two bugs here:
(a) for static format strings, the test should be done at the compile time
(possibly also for c = '(''n'')'; write(*,c) n )
-> see NAG compiler
(b) for dynamically created format strings, I think one should "crash" with a
meaningful error message. At least that is what ifort, g95, NAG and pgf95 do. I
like the error message of g95:
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At line 5 of file test.f90 (Unit 6)
Fortran runtime error: Exhausted data descriptors in format
('n')
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(other wording in NAG f95: "No data edit descriptor in tail of format
specification after reversion" [and no line number])
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27304
