https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96033

--- Comment #2 from Sylvain Korzennik <skorzennik at cfa dot harvard.edu> ---
Merci Dominique. 

Will transmit info to MVAPICH2 ppl. 

The configuration script needs to be changed, this is not "faulty code", it is
a test code part of the package configuration specifically to test if the
"Fortran compiler gfortran will compile files that call the same routine with
arguments of different types".

I ran the configurator ok by setting env vars FFLAGS and FCFLAGS to -std=legacy
- hopefully it will build fine.

These kind of changes make GCC harder and harder to use/maintain in a
professional setting, IM(H)O. 

Backward compatibility of gfortran is dismal (legacy code that builds fine w/
plethora of other fortran compiler fails to build w/ gfortran - ppl were
writing fortran code for quite a wile, like one big scientific package started
60+ years ago, yet gfortran is the one that can't handle it - ifort and
pgfortran do fine, it was written/developed on a VAX/VMS back when - author
have long retired - desn't make the code obsolete, tho).

A bien entendeur.

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