Bulletin number:  328
Products affected: D513A D613A D713D
Description: CHARACTER and COMMON alignment
Component: compiler
Date: Thu Jul 5 15:21:32 BST 1990
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If CHARACTER items are to be included in COMMON blocks they must be
either

a)  multiples of four bytes or
b)  at the end of the COMMON block.

For example the following will fail:

      PROGRAM
      CHARACTER*1 a
      REAL b
      COMMON /c/ a, b
      END

To fix, either make 'a' a multiple of four bytes or, reverse the order
of 'a' and 'b' in the COMMON block.