Does F90 do type checking when calling module subroutines?

Hi

I was under the impression that if you call subroutines from modules, f90
would check the call paramter types? I'm using Intel fortran under linux.
I have a subroutine defined in a module like this:

MODULE parseinput
..
..
..
INTERFACE read_namelists
MODULE PROCEDURE read_namelists
END INTERFACE
..
..
..
CONTAINS

SUBROUTINE read_namelists(infile)
IMPLICIT NONE
INTEGER(I4B), INTENT(in) :: infile


In another .f90 file, I included this subroutine with a USE parseinput
statement. Then I erroneously proceed to call it with a character array
(i.e. string) as parameter instead of an integer. Yet I get no compiler
error or warning! Is this the expected behaviour? If it is, is there
any way I can convince the compiler to let me know of my evil ways?

BTW, I4B is just an alias defined to mean 4 byte integer.

Thanks
Neilen

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