On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 16:13 +0200, Toon Moene wrote: > On 05/08/2015 03:34 PM, m-h-l wrote: > > > Funny thing is that g++, ArmC and ICC do not have a problem with "abcdef"[3] > > as an initializer. > > Neither does Fortran: > > toon@moene:~/src$ cat g.f > CHARACTER :: A = "12345"(3:3) > PRINT *,A > END > > toon@moene:~/src$ gfortran g.f > toon@moene:~/src$ ./a.out > 3 > > This is not the same case, because in Fortran "12345" is a string constant while in C it is an array of characters, not a constant.
