[Bug fortran/47023] C_Sizeof: Rejects valid code

[burnus at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47023

--- Comment #22 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-10-18 
12:48:31 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> The question is also how SIZEOF should act on data pointers:
> Output:
>                     2
>                     2
> Should it give the size of the pointer itself, or the size of the object it
> points to?

The target/pointee. Reasoning: For your example, g95, gfortran, ifort and
pathf95 all print "2". That's also what gfortran claims to do at 
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gfortran/SIZEOF.html

Regarding (comment 19, comment 20):
  print *,sizeof(proc)    ! (1) -- prints 1
  print *,sizeof(pp)      ! (2) -- prints 1
  print *,sizeof(pp(0.))  ! (3) -- prints 4

ifort rejects (1) and (2) and returns "4" for (3). I think gfortran should do
likewise. Returning the pointee size for scalar variables but the pointer size
of functions is also a bit odd.

 * * *

For Cray pointers/pointees:
  use iso_c_binding, only: c_sizeof
  implicit none
  integer(2) :: a
  pointer (aptr, a)
  print *,sizeof (a)   ! , c_sizeof (a)
  print *,sizeof (aptr)! , c_sizeof (aptr)
  end

This program fails to compile for c_sizeof while the sizeof version prints "2"
and "8", which I think is OK.