http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56945
janus at gcc dot gnu.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |janus at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #3 from janus at gcc dot gnu.org 2013-04-13 12:37:17 UTC --- With 4.5 and earlier I get: character(len=:), allocatable :: errtxt 1 Error: Syntax error in CHARACTER declaration at (1) 4.6 and 4.7 both give the error in the subject line. 4.8 and trunk accept it without error.