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One of the undesirable consequences of using fixed size strings is having to contend with a lot of padding.

Does the following code satisfy your needs?

program xyz
implicit none
integer ...

The scoping rules in Fortran are somewhat complicated, because new facilities (contained subprograms, modules) were added piecewise over decades, while insisting on keeping old programs unaffected by ...

When an identifier appears in an expression with an argument list (with zero or more arguments), and the variable has not been declared to be an array, the identifier implicitly acquires the EXTERNAL ...

That is strange, and may be related to the exact details of your copy-paste procedure. I used Firefox on Windows to copy, and pasted by redirection to a file in a command window, and did not find any ...

Given a test program source file (fixed form) containing #include directives starting in column-1, FTN95 refuses to compile the file.

program fppbug
implicit none
#include "size. ...

In the following program, one of the variables in a COMMON block is used before it has been defined.

!
program buggy
implicit none
external blkd
integer i,j,k,l,m,n
...

There is at least one more situation where a similar spurious warning is given -- parts of expressions wherein a variable name is required by the language rules but only the type of the variable matte ...

In the following program, the first executable statement is in error because the right hand side expression is array valued, and the variable on the left is scalar.

Compiler versions 8.90 and 8.92 ...

Thanks, Paul, perhaps a better solution would be to allow that hidden flag (now accessible only to the compiler developers) to be set by the user in FTN95.cfg or as a compiler command option. As Eddie ...

Thanks for spotting the slip, Eddie. I have corrected the reproducer above.

The issue still stands. In the actual code (not the small reproducer that I posted), the common block contains hundreds o ...

In the code shown below, there is an erroneous declaration for three variables that are already in scope through USE association. The compiler flags only one of the three variables in its error messag ...

Indeed, Robert, the equivalence statement makes itself felt, even though the two variables being equivalenced are both local variables in a subroutine that is not called.

Similarly, I observed that ...

I have a problem reproducer code that is about 220 lines long, of which about 70 lines are surrounded by #ifdef BIG ... #endif. These 70 lines contain two subroutines, neither of which is called from ...

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Bounds checking is being applied to a 1D array that is passed as an argument but is treated as a 2D (star-sized) array in the subprogram.

The bounds checking mechanism can't cope with this com ...

On my Windows 11 system, a few days ago Windows updated itself and after that I could not open my old help files. Apparently, Microsoft is trying too hard do kill any "legacy" help support f ...