From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: gcc includes g77. In version 2.96 g77 (f77) intrinsic ICHAR returns an integer -128 < Ichar < 127. According to an gcc specialist, this is not neccessary in conflict with the stanardisation statements, but it is contrary to earlier function of g77 (f77), 0 <= Ichar < 256. The change is undone in next version of gcc (g77), namely 3.01. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make fortran program using Ichar, example the following that can be stored to a file abc.f program abc implicit integer (a-z) character*(*) istring parameter (istring="abcC&C8C%ABCCCC") do 200 ix = 1, len(istring), 1 write (*,*) istring(ix:ix),":", - ichar (istring(ix:ix)) 200 continue end 2. Compile and run make abc abc 3. Actual Results: The characters C&C8C%CCC are given negative integer values. Expected Results: The characters C&C8C%CCC should be given positive integer values in the range 128 ... 255. Additional info: All old fortran programs using ichar to parse character strings, outside 7-bit ascii, will crash or give wrong results. (Note, this form seems also to have problems with characters outside 7-bit ascii ...)
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