http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54934
kargl at gcc dot gnu.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kargl at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #1 from kargl at gcc dot gnu.org 2012-10-15 15:40:28 UTC --- Jan, It's a convoluted problem. In gfortran, to get the maximum range of an integer type you need to use [-huge(i)-1:huge(i)] where 'i' is of the type of interest. This is a result of gfortran seeing a number like -4294967297 as a unary minus with an operand of 4294967297. 4294967297 without a kind suffix is of default integer kind, which is a 32-bit signed int, and 4294967297 is slightly larger than huge(1) = 2147483647. Note, Fortran does not have unsigned integers. If you don't want to or cannot use the -fno-range-check option, you can do integer(8), parameter :: n = 2 * (huge(1_4) + 1_8) + 1 dimension foo(n-1:n) dimension bar(-n-1:-n) bar = 42 foo = bar print *, n stop end where I correctly initialize bar to some value; otherwise, the code is invalid Fortran. You could also decorate the integers with a integer kind suffix dimension foo(4294967296_8:4294967297_8) dimension bar(-4294967297_8:-4294967296_8) bar = 42 foo=bar stop end Here, the _8 tells gfortran to use a signed 64-bit int. Both code snippets above compile on my x86_64-*-freebsd. I don't know want happens on an i686 target.