http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49961
janus at gcc dot gnu.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |ice-on-valid-code CC| |janus at gcc dot gnu.org Summary|type bounded function can |[OOP] type-bound function |not return a pointer of a |can not return a pointer of |array |a array --- Comment #3 from janus at gcc dot gnu.org 2011-08-04 17:24:29 UTC --- Here's maximally reduced test case: module aa type bb end type contains function getcc(this) result(cc) class(bb) :: this integer,dimension(2) :: cc end function end module use aa type(bb) :: b1 print *,getcc(b1) end Apparently this PR is a duplicate of PR42051/PR43896 and has supposedly been fixed by r160622: http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=revision&revision=160622 The patch looks very simple and it may be feasible to backport it to 4.5.