BUG: FOR2588 Error Multiple Appearances of Namelist Group Name

• Microsoft Fortran PowerStation for Windows 95 and Windows NT, version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

Using more than one instance of the same NAMELIST group name causes the following error message to be generated:

   error FOR2588: NAMELIST statement cannot occur here
   Errors in declarations, no further processing for main

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

Normally, any NAMELIST group name can appear more than once in the same program unit. The list of objects in a particular NAMELIST is treated as a continuation of the list in the previous NAMELIST with the same name.

The following code illustrates the problem:

Sample Code

C Compile options needed:

      integer a,b,c,d,e,f

      namelist /nam/ a,b,c
      a = 1
      b = 2
      c = 3
      write(*,nam)

      namelist /nam/ d,e,f   ! compiler error generated here.
      d = 4
      e = 5
      f = 6
      write(*,nam)

      end