From waveren@delft.sgp.slb.com Fri Jun 11 18:17:20 1993 Received: from fulmar.delft.sgp.slb.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA17209 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Fri, 11 Jun 1993 16:17:35 +0200 Received: by fulmar.delft.sgp.slb.com id AA07582 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for SC22WG5@dkuug.dk); Fri, 11 Jun 1993 16:17:21 +0200 From: Matthijs van Waveren Message-Id: <199306111417.AA07582@fulmar.delft.sgp.slb.com> Subject: Use of default format for internal files To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 16:17:20 +0200 (MET DST) X-Name: Matthijs van Waveren X-Organization: Schlumberger/Geco-Prakla Delft X-Address: P.O. Box 148 2600 AC Delft The Netherlands X-Phone: +31 (0)15 682106 X-Fax: +31 (0)15 617881 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 919 X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 All, Using a Fortran QC package (QA Fortran) Steven has come across a warning message complaining of a ANSI violation as follows: AN INTERNAL FILE MUST NOT BE DEFAULT FORMAT against the line: write(msg,*) 'mpfk_ralpfk: no traces found ', isst,itr, jcdp where msg is a variable of type character. The essence of the warning is understood, but could anyone tell us: o what the rationale behind this part of the ANSI standard is, o what the potential dangers of using this construct are, and o what the implications for portability of this code are. Many thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven Heaney and Matthijs van Waveren Schlumberger Geco-Prakla Postbus 148 2600 AC Delft The Netherlands heaney@delft.sgp.slb.com/waveren@delft.sgp.slb.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------