The following program fails to raise an error condition in the deallocate statement. The pointer target was not created by an allocate.
Dick Hendrickson program MF0069 ! fails on Windows XP ! gcc version 4.4.0 20080312 (experimental) [trunk revision 133139] ! F95 page 83, line 34 says deallocating a pointer whose target !wasn't created by an ALLOCATE causes error condition REAL, pointer :: RLA(:) REAL, TARGET :: RLA1(6) RLA1 = 0 RLA => RLA1 DEALLOCATE (RLA, STAT = ISTAT) IF (ISTAT .LE. 0) print *, 'deallocate did not fail!', istat END -- Summary: deallocating non-allocated pointer target does not fail Product: gcc Version: 4.4.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: fortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: dick dot hendrickson at gmail dot com http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35718