------- Comment #7 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-06-20 17:39 ------- > Even ICC 8.1 accepts the code without warnings I never found ifort (or sunf95) especially picky - contrary to NAG f95, which is often too picky.
I'm in favour of giving a warning; actually I would even warn by default and not only when using -W*. There is hardly any code imaginable which makes sense and uses not allocated variables. (The only thing which comes into my mind is code where the non-allocated variables are never accessed: dead if branch, not calling the subroutine w/ that variable etc.) NAG f95: Error: x.f90, line 5: ALLOCATABLE array B used but never ALLOCATEd detected at END@<end-of-statement> Error: x.f90, line 5: ALLOCATABLE array A used but never ALLOCATEd detected at END@<end-of-statement> g95: Nothing by default, but with -Wall: Warning (147): Variable 'b' at (1) is used and never allocated Warning (112): Variable 'a' at (1) is set but never used -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20520