------- Comment #6 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-04-27 17:33 ------- Dick Hendrickson answered (see link above):
'It's scattered around, but the PAD= is the thing you want. In internal I/O it says it acts as if there were an OPEN without a PAD= specifier. In the OPEN section it says the default for no PAD= is YES. In 9.5.3.4.2 it finally says "During advancing input when the pad mode has the value YES, blank characters are supplied by the processor if the input list and format specification require more characters from the record than the record contains." So, the processor should supply extra blanks as needed.' * * * Ceterum autem censeo ... -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39587