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Subject: Why does read(*,*) not work in gfortran 4.x?
From: Felix <junkemail AT junk DOT com>
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I have compiled the following program on three DJGPP installations:

      program Test
      real first
      write (*,'(a)') 'Program to regurgitate a number'
      write (*,'(a,$)') 'Enter number: '
      read (*,*) first
      write (*,'(a,f10.5)') 'Regurgitated number is', first
      stop
      end

With GCC 4.6.1 and binutils 2.21.1 (or GCC 4.4.2 and binutils 2.19),
this program does not properly execute the 'read (*,*)' statement.
With a considerably older installation of GCC 3.2 (g77 instead of 
gfortran) and binutils 2.13, it does work.

By the way, it does work with GCC 4.4.3 and binutils 2.20.1 on Linux,
so it seems to be a DJGPP compiler quirk.

Felix