http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53035
--- Comment #5 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-04-25 20:45:26 UTC --- Reduced test case: module SysPars implicit none character (len = :), allocatable :: lens_dir end module SysPars Related: PR 45170 (plus a few others) * * * (In reply to comment #2) > Sorry that I forgot to attach the file. It is attached here. I have greatly > reduced the number of the files I could reduce it even more - see above. I am not sure whether fixing will be that straight forward, though. > I could make it a full-time job submitting bugs. And I could make it a full-time job fixing bugs ;-) > Permit me to add that the lack of deferred length, allocatable characters in > gfortran represents, for me, a major obstacle. I concur that the bugs related to deferred-length (incl. this PR) and the lack of deferred-length components is of some importance. Unfortunately, it is not that trivial. As bug fixing and some other projects currently rank higher, it might take a while. (Though, sometimes even larger features can get implemented rather quickly.) As gfortran is developed by volunteers, it is a bit unpredictable when a certain feature gets implemented and how quickly the development progresses.
