Namelist and Arrays

[Dishaw__Jim]

According to the documentation and the compiler error messages, allocatable arrays and static arrays with nonconstant bounds cannot be used with a NAMELIST. For example,

REAL :: arr(gMax)
NAMELIST /NLIST/ arr

results in the error

Error: A NAMELIST group object must not be an array with nonconstant bounds.

This seems to be an arbitrary limit--is there a basis for it? I guess the only work around is to make the array large enough for the expected range of values for gMax.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The restriction is stated in the Fortran 95 standard, but in Fortran 2003 the rule is simply that the object cannot be an assumed-size array, so eventually we'll relax the implementation to meet the standard.