http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51991
--- Comment #10 from Sebastien Bardeau <bardeau at iram dot fr> 2012-02-08 10:38:42 UTC --- I checked the gfortran trunk revision 183991 and the "bug" does not seem to be fixed. I can also add that the DATA*-named variables give also erroneous messages. gfortran -v: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gfortran COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/bardeau/Softs/gcc-4.7.0-20120208/bin/../libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.7.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-trunk-source/gcc/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-checking=release --disable-bootstrap --disable-libmudflap --enable-libgomp --enable-lto --enable-gold --with-plugin-ld=/usr/bin/gold --prefix=/usr/local/gcc-trunk Thread model: posix gcc version 4.7.0 20120208 (experimental) [trunk revision 183991] (GCC) code: subroutine sav integer :: save1 save1 = something wrong end subroutine sav ! subroutine dat integer :: data1 data1 = something wrong end subroutine dat messages: gfortran-error4.f90:3.6: save1 = something wrong 1 Error: Syntax error in SAVE statement at (1) gfortran-error4.f90:8.6: data1 = something wrong 1 Error: Syntax error in DATA statement at (1)