------- Comment #3 from burnus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-12-15 10:48 ------- I think the patch in comment 2 is about the wrong gfc_error. Additionally, the generic resolution seems to be correct in gfortran (-> PR 38506).
* * * In any case: I tried ifort, g95, NAG f95, gfortran, and sunf95 - of these only "ifort" allows it (even with all checking enabled - thus presumably only by accident and not on purpose). Thus I wonder whether simply using the following "evil" workaround is better than patching the compiler: f_ptr = C_LOC(X(1:1)) That works with gfortran, ifort, g95 and NAG f95. (It fails with sunf95, whose C interoperability is a bit shaky in general.) As the string should be contiguous in memory it should be the OK. Additionally, that is also what one would do in C: char X[40]; ptr = &X; // or equivalently: ptr = &X[0]; -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36771
