------- Comment #2 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-07-22 06:48 ------- Both character*(*) foo character(*) foo
are supported by gfortran. At the moment I cannot imagine a program which works with the latter and fails with the former. If you have a complete (short!) example, we could look into the problem, though I would not be surprised if the code is simply invalid Fortran. Note that using either of the two lines is only valid for dummy arguments of subroutines/functions (though g77 accepts it also for local variables). Thus can you provide us a complete example? For Fortran programming questions, like Daniel, I would suggest to write to the comp.lang.fortran newsgroup (which is also available via HTTP at http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.fortran/ ). -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36894
