[Bug fortran/46152] ALLOCATE with type-spec fails for intrinsic types

[burnus at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46152

--- Comment #7 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-10-24 
07:01:14 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Note that
> allocate (integer :: a)
> is really only useful once we have unlimited polymorphism

Well, it was motivated by:

  character(len=:), allocatable :: str
  allocate (character(len=77) :: str)

which is useful even without unlimited polymorphism.