Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!laporte
From: laporte@sobeco.com (p.laporte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: f77 bug
Message-ID: <1990Feb17.213900.26927@sobeco.com>
Date: 17 Feb 90 21:39:00 GMT
Organization: Sobeco Group - Montreal, Canada
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Using structures in fortran we have discovered a bug in the compiler.

When compiling this simple program

      structure /typea/
        character*11 key
      end structure
      record /typea/ rec

      rec(1) = 0
      rec.key = '0001'
      write(*,*) rec.key
      stop
      end

We get the following message

Fatal error in: /usr/lib/cmplrs/f77/fcom - core dumped

I realize that the line rec(1) = 0 is illegal but ....

If someone at mips (Lilian) could tell us if they know about this bug 
and if a fix is available. We are using version 2.0 of the f77 compiler.


Also i am looking for a way to initialyse a structure without referencing 
all the elements. Particularely i need to initialyse the positions that
i defined with %fill to put null in them.

Tks 

Pierre Laporte
laporte@Sobeco.com