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From: HUESTIS@MPLVAX.SRI.COM (David L. Huestis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: MS-FORTRAN bug in string concatenation
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Date: 13 Feb 91 17:55:13 GMT
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Organization: Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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Under Microsoft FORTRAN the following simple program

       character string*4/'abc'/
       string = '*'//string
       write(*,*)string
       end

produces the output '**bb' while LAHEY and VAX yield '*abc'

Microsoft FORTRAN takes no precautions against the source strings
overlapping the destination string.