FORTRAN Reference Manual

Compile-Time Diagnostic Messages
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Error Messages
Cause. A noncharacter entity specifies a length.
Recovery. Remove the length specification or change the data type to CHARACTER.
Cause. A statement begins with a nonalphabetic character.
Recovery. Correct the statement.
Cause. The indicated control specifier in an I/O statement is not one of the keywords
known to HP FORTRAN.
Recovery. Correct the statement.
Cause. A nonnumeric character appears in the label field (columns 1 through 5) of the
initial line of a statement.
Recovery. Remove or replace the character.
Cause. A statement appears to be an assignment statement but the left side of the
assignment is not a variable, an array element, a RECORD field, or a substring.
Recovery. Correct the statement.
Cause. The number of dimensions in an array is specified in two different, but
contradictory, declarations.
Recovery. Remove one declaration.
MUST BE TYPE CHARACTER TO HAVE SIZE
MUST START WITH ALPHABETIC CHARACTER
NON EXISTENT I/O CONTROL ** keyword
NON NUMERIC STATEMENT LABEL
NOT A SIMPLE VARIABLE
NUMBER OF DIMENSIONS INCOMPATIBLE ** array-name