Typing "?" for a namelist input is supposed to yield a description of the input variables on standard output. This doesn't work with g77:
$ g77 -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ia64-redhat-linux/3.2.3/specs Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --host=ia64-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-42) $ ./a.out $ cat nl.f program main namelist /nl/ a read (*,nl) print *,a end $ g77 nl.f && a.out ? I/O recursion: I/O started while already doing I/O apparent state: unit 5 (unnamed) last format: list io lately reading direct formatted external IO Aborted -- Summary: ? in namelist read leads to I/O recursion Product: gcc Version: 3.2.3 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: libf2c AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: Thomas dot Koenig at online dot de CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18874