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From: lilian@mips.COM (Lilian Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: bug f77
Message-ID: <37390@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 90 03:27:11 GMT
References: <1990Mar26.231235.3713@sobeco.com>
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In article <1990Mar26.231235.3713@sobeco.com> laporte@sobeco.com (p.laporte) writes:
>
>The fortran compiler loops when compiling this small program 
>
>      data n/1/
>      i = 1
>      mem(i) = mem(i)
>      j = mem(i)
>      stop
>      end
>
>Has this been fixed in the 2.10 version of f77 ?
>We are still using version 2.00
>
>Tks
>            
>Pierre Laporte
>laporte@Sobeco.com



No, this has not been fixed in our 2.10 version.  We will file it
as a bug and fix it in our later version.  It loops because our 
compiler tries to substitute the statement function mem() in
	j = mem(i)
with the RHS of its definition, which happens to be the same as
the statement function itself, so it goes into an infinite loop trying 
to resolve the function.  The solution will be to generate an error msg 
for this.
	
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