http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56743
--- Comment #4 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-03-30 10:47:30 UTC --- Created attachment 29752 --> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=29752 Test case - please read comment in the file or comment 4 The test case is successful with ifort 13.1, it fails (iostat/=0, run time failure) with Crayftn and PGI already for "i=1!". According to the Fortran standard, the example - as the example in comment 0 - is invalid. From Fortran 2008, "10.11.3.6 Namelist comments": "Except within a character literal constant, a "!" character after a value separator or in the first nonblank position of a namelist input record initiates a comment." Note the "after a value separator". In "i=1!" there is no value separator after the value "1". For my character example "c1 = a": Also that example is invalid according to the Fortran standard, which states in "10.11.3.3 Namelist input values": "When the next effective item is of type character, the input form consists of a delimited sequence of zero or more rep-chars [...]" Thus, either " or ' is required as delimiter - but the example doesn't use neither. EXPECTED RESULTS: (a) "i=1!" is either accepted as vendor extension as "i=1 !...", matching Intel's result. Or it is rejected with a compile-time error as Crayftn and PGI do it. Currently, integers and reals (except for INF/NAN) give not error but the result is not modified (BUG!). For logical, complex and delimited character strings, the value is read (as vendor extension), and for INF and NAN a "cannot match namelist object" error is shown - which is acceptable according to the standard an matches PGI/Crayftn. (b) For nondelimited character strings: Currently, it gives the error "Cannot match namelist object", which is fine according to the standard. One could still consider to support reading it as vendor extension - as Intel does. (Simply read from the first nonspace character to the first value separator.)