David, Per an earlier discussion with myself and MichaelC (added to To:) its really important that we get testcases for this and the other fortran bugs in place. I'm kind of begging here :-) Once and only with the testcases in place do we have an assurance that the next change (by someone else entirely) won't regress this existing change. Jim, I suspect everyone has assumed that this was a symtab patch :-) Andrew