Sporadic crashes/SAVE-Statement in Modules

Hi

I use "SAVE" in Fortran-Modules as a "global" statement:

      MODULE MYMODULE
      PARAMETER (LNG=21)
      REAL, dimension (1000 , LNG) :: NIEDZRY
      REAL, dimension (1000 , LNG) :: NIEDZRX
      save
      ...

Does anybody know, whether the position of "SAVE" is important? Is the above code equivalent to this one:

      MODULE MYMODULE
      save
      PARAMETER (LNG=21)
      REAL, dimension (1000 , LNG) :: NIEDZRY
      REAL, dimension (1000 , LNG) :: NIEDZRX
      ...

I ask this question because I face some strange and very sporadic crashes in my program. These crashes occur in connection with these module-variables.

Benedikt

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