http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59796
--- Comment #3 from Walter Spector <w6ws at earthlink dot net> --- My initial reaction is that yes, 6.7.3.3 in F08 states what you quoted. And I agree that it is a programming error to pass a dangling pointer into deallocate. But that does not preclude gfortran from returning some sort of error back to the user when stat= is present. In fact, 6.7.4 seems to *require* it - at least in the case of co-arrays. (... "If any other error condition occurs...") So I don't see a conflict in the Standard.