[comp.sys.sgi] Bug in f77? Why does this drop core?

deb@kea.wpd.sgi.com (Deb Ryan) (04/10/90)

In article <27681@ut-emx.UUCP>, russo@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Russo) writes:
> The 3.2 fortran compiler drops core with a message
> 
> Fatal error in /usr/lib/fcom - core dumped
>   Signal 139
> Here is the very smallest program we tried which causes the core dump:
> 
> c	This is an example of the core-killer program
> 
>       parameter(nt=20000)
>       equivalence(nt,n)
>       end
> 


I've filed an SCR on this: numbered 9325.  Fortran, of course should
not core dump on bogus code.  Due to timing issues, this bug will 
probably not get fixed for a while.

					-Deb
					 deb@sgi.com
 					 Deborah Ryan Caruso @ Silicon Graphics