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                 EDIT DESCRIPTIONS FOR FORTRAN-10-V10                           
  
  
                             EDIT 336    FOR FORDDT
  
  
  
  
[SYMPTOM]
  
  
Auopatch-built FORDDT does not reflect true version number.
  
  
  
[DIAGNOSIS]
  
  
Autopatch won't update the version number of a reserved edit number if
it is the only edit for a particular freeze period.
  
  
  
[CURE]
  
  
Force a dummy update.
  
  
  
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                             EDIT 4211   FOR FOROTS
  
SYMPTOM
  
A program which merely OPENs a file numerous times for APPEND will run out
of channels, even though the file is properly CLOSED.
  
DIAGNOSIS
  
When FOROTS opens a file for append, it attempts to first create a file,
so that the file is guaranteed to be in the "top-level" area. Since the
FILOP to create the file has the "allocate a channel" bit on, a channel
is allocated and TOPS-10 does not deallocate it.
  
CURE
  
FOROTS must deallocate the channel after a failing FILOP. This is
accomplished by edit 4211.
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                             EDIT 4212   FOR FOROTS
  
SYMPTOM
  
Using FORTRAN-10, when in DIALOG, if a file is specified for RENAME
which already exists, and then the user specifies a different filename
which succeeds, the resultant file has a creation date sometime in 1974.
  
DIAGNOSIS
  
When TOPS-10 gets a rename failure, it places the error code in the
right half of .RBEXT in the LOOKUP/ENTER block corresponding to the
filename to which the file was to be renamed, thus destroying the
creation date FOROTS put there.
  
CURE
  
After a rename failure, copy the right half of .RBEXT from the original
file's LOOKUP/ENTER block. This is accomplished by edit 4212.
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                             EDIT 4213   FOR FOROTS
  
SYMPTOM
  
If OPENing a file on magtape with RECORDTYPE='FIXED', if the BLOCKSIZE
specified is not an integral multiple of the RECL specified, an illegally
formatted tape will result, with records spanning block boundaries.
  
DIAGNOSIS
  
FOROTS does not attempt to check for this illegal condition.
  
CURE
  
Check for the condition, give a fatal error message if found.
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                             EDIT 4215   FOR FOROTS
  
  
  
  
[SYMPTOM]
  
  
Underserved "?Bad  format  bindary  file"  error  reading  unformatted
character data.
  
  
  
[DIAGNOSIS]
  
  
If the data runs out when reading unformatted  character  data,  FORIO
routine  UICZNI  improperly  clears  the flag/value word RECLEN.  This
causes a subsequent attempt to read a non-existent LSCW 3 at ILSCWX.
  
  
  
[CURE]
  
  
Edit 4215
  
  
  
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                             EDIT 2531   FOR FORTRA
  
  
  
  
[SYMPTOM]
  
     No error message for using an external name (subroutine/function)
in an I/O statement I/O list.  Ie;
  
        CALL DAYTIM()
        TYPE *,DAYTIM
        END
  
DAYTIM does not get an error message in the TYPE statement's I/O list,
even though it is the name of a subroutine, and is not a variable.
  
  
[DIAGNOSIS]
  
     No test is made anywhere to make this warning.
  
  
[CURE]
  
     Add a test to output the warning message if a symbol is  external
in the output list.
  
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                             EDIT 2532   FOR FORTRA
  
  
  
  
[SYMPTOM]
  
     Incorrect argument checking "type mismatch"  warning  message  is
given at Link time when passing a subroutine name as an argument.
  
  
[DIAGNOSIS]
  
     Compiler is improperly recognizing  when  a  subroutine  name  is
being  passed  to  a  routine.  Subroutine names are typeless, but the
compiler is outputting a "type" to Link to do argument checking with.
  
  
[CURE]
  
     Do not output any "type" for any external name to Link unless the
name  is  known  to be a function name.  The only way that this can be
known is if the external name is called in the program as a function.
  
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                             EDIT 2533   FOR FORTRA
  
  
  
  
[SYMPTOM]
  
     /FLAG:ANSI produces an erroneous 'commas needed' flagger  warning
when quotes appear within an alpha literal in a FORMAT statement.
  
  
[DIAGNOSIS]
  
     Routine FORMATSYN in  module  FORMAT  sees  quotes  within  alpha
literals as two literals in a row.  The flagger thus complains because
it thinks that there should be a comma separator.
  
  
[CURE]
  
     Recognize the case of one  alpha  literal  immediately  following
another, and suppress the warning message in that case.
  
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                             EDIT 2534   FOR FORTRA
  
  
  
  
[SYMPTOM]
  
     Duplicate error messages are generated  for  some  bad  substring
assignments.   For  example,  the  following program produces multiple
error messages because I cannot be both a  character  function  and  a
variable.
  
                SUBROUTINE X(I)
                CHARACTER*1 I
                IF (I(1).EQ.' ') WRITE (5,*) 'HELLO'
                I(1:1)='X'
                RETURN
                END
  
  
[DIAGNOSIS]
  
     The routine which puts out the error message is called twice.
  
  
[CURE]
  
     Remove the second call to the routine which puts  out  the  error
message.
  
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                             EDIT 2535   FOR FORTRA
  
  
  
  
[SYMPTOM]
  
     A protected file can not be included from [1,2].
  
  
[DIAGNOSIS]
  
     The privilege bit  (PO.PRV)  in  the  FILOP  arg  block  for  the
included file is turned off.
  
  
[CURE]
  
     Turn on the privilege bit.
  
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END OF  FORTRAN-10-V10