f77 dumped core

[Calvin H. Vu]

In article <975 at dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> merritt at iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H Merritt) writes:


>f77 could not digest the following program; it handled it fine when
>I have the declaration of the character variable.
>--------------------   cut   ---------------------------------
>      program test
>*      character*80 inpfile
>*      inpfile = '10-28-86'
>      open(1,file="/usr/local/lib/"//inpfile,
>     *       status='old',err=111,form='unformatted',
>     *access='direct',recl=5752)

>      print*,'Open SUCCESSFUL'
>      stop

> 111  print*,'Open FAILED'
>      stop
>      end
>--------------------   cut   ---------------------------------
>Here is the response I received for 'f77 test.f':

>Fatal error in: /usr/lib/fcom - core dumped
> Signal 139 
	This has been fixed our next release which will give the appropriate
	error message:

	Error on line 4 of open.f: concatenation of nonchar data

>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>John H. Merritt                   #  Yesterday I knew nothing,
>Applied Research Corporation      #  Today I know that.
>merritt at iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov     #

Sorry about the trouble,

-Calvin Vu