http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60289
janus at gcc dot gnu.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |rejects-valid Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Last reconfirmed| |2014-02-20 CC| |janus at gcc dot gnu.org Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from janus at gcc dot gnu.org --- Confirmed. Doing the same with a deferred-length character pointer works: character(len=:), pointer :: P allocate(character(5)::P) end