String incorrectly interpreted as integer

Accelerated Computing HPC Compilers Legacy PGI Compilers
#1

Dear all,

I am wondering, why the recent PGI-Fortran compiler (release 17.10) interprets the strings “Fe” and “Te” as integers. The following program

program test
  implicit none

  integer :: ii, iError
  character(2) :: str

  str = "Fe"
  ii = -2
  read(str, *, iostat=iError) ii
  print *, "iError:", iError
  print *, "II:", ii

end program test

outputs

 iError:            0
 II:            0

which in contrast to my expectations and also to what all other compilers I have tried generate.

Best,

Bálint

#2

We have replicated the problem and we have issued TPR 24948
to track it.

thanks,
dave