The attached code shows the problem - when the LEN intrinsic is overloaded, gfortran is unable to resolve the symbol. Remove the overloading, and the code compiles fine. parabrisas:~/test% gfortran -v Using built-in specs. Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc/configure --prefix=/home/tow/root/gcc --enable-languages=c,f95 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.0 20050315 (experimental) parabrisas:~/test% ~/root/gcc/bin/gfortran -c m_wxml_buffer.f90 In file m_wxml_buffer.f90:19 character(len=1), dimension(len(s)) :: s_a 1 Error: Symbol 'len' at (1) has no IMPLICIT type
-- Summary: Problem when overloading LEN intrinsic Product: gcc Version: 4.1.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: fortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: tow21 at cam dot ac dot uk CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20482