My boss teared my hair off with heavy sarcasm when we turned on -fbound-check.
The runtime executable proudly reported an array reference out of bounds. My boss screamed "Which bloody one?!" While I am very happy to know we have an array reference out of bounds I can see his point. Could the error message say which array is out of bounds? gfortran 4.1.1 -- Summary: minimally informative gfortran -fbounds-check Product: gcc Version: 4.1.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: fortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: mkeehan at lic dot co dot nz GCC host triplet: SLES 9 opteron GCC target triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29678