Hi all, I plan to commit the attached patch with a test case shortly. It is relatively simple. Thanks to Dominique for pinpointing the location right away. Regression tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. Regards, Jerry 2017-12-03 Jerry DeLisle Dominique d'Humieres PR libgfortran/83191 * io/transfer.c (list_formatted_read_scalar): Do not set namelist_mode bit here. (namelist_read): Likewise. (data_transfer_init): Clear the mode bit here. (finalize_transfer): Do set the mode bit just before any calls to namelist_read or namelist_write. It can now be referred to in complex_write. ^ io/write.c (write_complex): Suppress the leading blanks when namelist_mode bit is not set to 1.