http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53685
Jos de Kloe <kloedej at knmi dot nl> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kloedej at knmi dot nl --- Comment #7 from Jos de Kloe <kloedej at knmi dot nl> 2012-11-29 10:52:32 UTC --- I see a very similar problem with a slightly modified piece of testcode on version 4.7.2. Not sure if it is exactly the same, but probably related to the already patched issue. My testcode: program testtransfer integer, parameter :: r8_ = Selected_Real_Kind(15,307) ! = real*8 integer, parameter :: nbytes_r8_ = 8 real(r8_) :: val character(len=1), dimension(16) :: byte_array byte_array(:) = ' ' call mytest(byte_array,val) print *,"val: ",val contains subroutine mytest(byte_array,val) character(len=1), dimension(16), intent(in) :: byte_array real(r8_),intent(out) :: val val = transfer(byte_array(1:nbytes_r8_),val) end subroutine mytest end program testtransfer Results: >gfortran -Wall -o transfer_problem transfer_problem.F90 transfer_problem.F90:15.19: val = transfer(byte_array(1:nbytes_r8_),val) 1 Warning: Intrinsic TRANSFER at (1) has partly undefined result: source size 1 < result size 8 > This occurs for this version: >gfortran --version | head -1 GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.7.2 20120921 (Red Hat 4.7.2-2) on my Fedora17 system. (package gcc-gfortran-4.7.2-2.fc17.x86_64) The problem is not present in: >gfortran --version | head -1 GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.6.3 20120306 (Red Hat 4.6.3-2) on a Fedora16 system. (package gcc-gfortran-4.6.3-2.fc16.x86_64)