From: Steve Lionel [Steve.Lionel@compaq.com]
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 9:02 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: %FOR-F-NOMSG, where's the real message?

On 7 Jun 2001 14:50:57 -0500, koehler@encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler)
wrote:

>
>Compaq Fortran V7.3-965-44A1I running on Alpha OpenVMS 7.2-1.
>
>When I run the following Fortran 90 program with an intentional attempt
>to allocate an already allocated array, I get a less than meaningfull
>error message.  Am I missing a message file?  (I tried an explicit
>set message on sys$message:f90$msg, sys$message:fort$msg, and 
>sys$message:fort$msg2.)


This should be:

 FOR-F-INVREALLOC, allocatable array is already allocated

The message EXEs you are looking at are for the compiler, not the
run-time library.  The FOR messages tend to come from the OpenVMS
system messages, but this is a new one that wasn't in 7.2-1.  I had
thought we built the RTLs to include their own copies of the message,
but perhaps the one you're using is not.

Try downloading
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/fortran/OpenVMS/CFAV-FORRTL-V0704-3.zipexe

RUN it to unpack and then:

$ PRODUCT INSTALL FORRTL /SOURCE=[] /HELP

to install.  This will give you the latest Fortran RTL, which I know
includes the latest messages, and will also avoid a problem that's
come up with upgrading to VMS 7.3, where you get a DUPKEY error during
the VMS upgrade.  I recommend that all Fortran users running OpenVMS
Alpha 7.1 or later install this kit, which is compatible with older
versions of the compiler.  I'll be posting a more general message
about this soon.  Send me mail if you have questions on this.



Steve Lionel (mailto:Steve.Lionel@compaq.com)
Fortran Engineering
Compaq Computer Corporation, Nashua NH

Compaq Fortran web site: http://www.compaq.com/fortran