------- Comment #17 from deji_aking at yahoo dot ca 2008-10-31 04:27 ------- (In reply to comment #14)
> ----------------------------------- > > From comment 1: > > Adw_xabcd_8(1:n) = transfer(-1,1.0) ! Adw_xabcd_8 is REAL > > That makes sense: One assigns NaN to a real variable (though a comment would > be > helpful). However > Does this mean gfortran shouldn't give an error message on the first part (with the real variable) of the bug report? It seems the patch to fix this only deals with the integer variable assignment. > Adw_Fn_I (n) = transfer(-1,1.0) ! Adw_Fn_I is an INTEGER > > does not make sense as there is no NaN for integers. Here, one could have used > "-HUGE(Adw_Fn_I)" or similar. I think the programmer simply missed that > Adw_Fn_I is no real variable; as long as compiler digest this number it does > its purpose - initializing the variable with garbage, but syntactically it > does > not make sense - and a compiler has all rights to reject it. > -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37930
