------- Comment #8 from schilds at sun dot ac dot za 2008-08-08 08:31 ------- What does Fortran 2003 have to do with legacy mode? Nothing. So far as I know the GCC compiler is at odds with Solaris, Intel, Vax, you name it. All of these allowed you to touch unit 6 without affecting the print*, (or write(*,*)) statement. The behaviour is therefore both unexpected and difficult to track down (not even a warning).
This is a serious bug, make no mistake. It causes existing Fortran 77 code to fail. It's wasted a lot of my time and, no doubt, a lot of other, good peoples' too. The ubiquitousness of the print*, (or write(*,*)) statement makes fixing this bug a priority. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18985
