------- Comment #3 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-02-20 13:16 ------- (In reply to comment #2) > For those who wonder (as I did) why using an optional argument is legal: > It is only used as actual argument corresponding to an optional dummy > argument. (cf. 12.4.1.6 in the Fortran 2003 standard).
And on the fact that the optional argument does not change the rank. This PR is seemingly based on the following c.l.fortran thread: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.fortran/browse_thread/thread/1e7a4db9d998955a -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30865
