[Bug fortran/39490] Invalid character constructor rejected at -std=gnu since 4.4

["fxcoudert at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>]

------- Comment #3 from fxcoudert at gcc dot gnu dot org  2009-03-28 08:28 -------
This is work that Daniel Kraft and I did (well, I think he did the hard work
and I gave some loose sort of guidance). I seem to remember it was intentional
(it may have been discussed on the list around summer of 2008, but I can't find
it).

Regarding whether it's desirable or not, I think it is right to issue an error:
this is rather recent Fortran code, so people have virtually no reason for not
writing the proper constructor. (Accepting invalid code as a GNU extension
should be done sparsely.)

I'm thus closing as WONTFIX.


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fxcoudert at gcc dot gnu dot org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |fxcoudert at gcc dot gnu dot
                   |                            |org
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
  GCC build triplet|Linux, x86_64 and i486      |
   GCC host triplet|Linux, x86_64 and i486      |
 GCC target triplet|Linux, x86_64 and i486      |
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX
            Summary|Non-standard assignment of  |Invalid character
                   |arrays of character objects |constructor rejected at -
                   |                            |std=gnu since 4.4
            Version|4.3.2                       |4.4.0


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39490