------- Comment #3 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2010-08-17 13:23 ------- (Add lost mid-air collision text)
As Clive Page notes in c.l.f, the non-padding is required for F95 while the padding is required in F2003 - though, I would not care for the F95 version and always pad. (F95, 13.14.27: "DATE [...] Its leftmost 8 characters are assigned a value of the form CCYYMMDD [...] If there is no date available, they are assigned blanks.") (F2003 -- and F2008, 13.7.44: "DATE [...] It is assigned a value of the form CCYYMMDD, [...] If there is no date available, DATE is assigned all blanks.") -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45308
