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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Implicit parameters in Sun 1.3.1 Fortran: Bug
Message-ID: <14238@lanl.gov>
Date: 11 Feb 91 20:33:46 GMT
References: <2920@charon.cwi.nl>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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From article <2920@charon.cwi.nl>, by dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter):
> Is it a bug?  I just read the message from Jim Giles, which was similar to
> mine:  if you are mixing cases all bets are off in Fortran 77.  But Jim,
> like me, assumed it was a bug, because the compiler is not case sensitive.
> On reflection my opinion is that it is not a bug, whatever way you want
> to read the standard.

Point taken.  It is not a bug vis-a-vis the standard because the
program in question is non-standard - so the compiler may do anything
with it and still be a standard conforming compiler.

However, I still think it is a bug.  It is not a "standard compliance"
bug.  It is bug in the sense that it doesn't comply with the supplimentary
capabilities (above and beyond the standard) which the vendor claims
to support.  From both the vendor's and the user's point of view, this
can be just as severe a fault as non-compliance with the standard.

J. Giles