https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67883
--- Comment #3 from Gerhard Steinmetz <gerhard.steinmetz.fort...@t-online.de> --- For the following cases, every line produces an ICE : $ cat zz5.f90 program p character(*), parameter :: x1(*) = [character(*) ::] // [character(0) ::] character(*), parameter :: x2(*) = [character(*) ::] // [character(*) ::] character(*), parameter :: x3(*) = [character(*) ::] character(*), parameter :: x4(0) = [character(*) ::] character(1), parameter :: x5(*) = [character(*) ::] character(1), parameter :: x6(0) = [character(*) ::] character(0), parameter :: x7(0) = [character(*) ::] character(0), parameter :: x8(1) = [character(*) ::] character(1), parameter :: x9(1) = [character(*) ::] end $ gfortran-7-20160703 zz5.f90 f951: internal compiler error: in gfc_resolve_character_array_constructor, at fortran/array.c:2020 0x65b719 gfc_resolve_character_array_constructor(gfc_expr*) ../../gcc/fortran/array.c:2020 0x6e16d6 gfc_resolve_expr(gfc_expr*) ../../gcc/fortran/resolve.c:6402 0x6875bf gfc_reduce_init_expr(gfc_expr*) ../../gcc/fortran/expr.c:2668 0x688549 gfc_match_init_expr(gfc_expr**) ../../gcc/fortran/expr.c:2709 0x679d53 variable_decl ../../gcc/fortran/decl.c:2400 0x679d53 gfc_match_data_decl() ../../gcc/fortran/decl.c:4841 0x6cc069 match_word_omp_simd ../../gcc/fortran/parse.c:93 0x6cf40e match_word ../../gcc/fortran/parse.c:373 0x6cf40e decode_statement ../../gcc/fortran/parse.c:373 0x6d1114 next_free ../../gcc/fortran/parse.c:1120 0x6d1114 next_statement ../../gcc/fortran/parse.c:1354 0x6d259c parse_spec ../../gcc/fortran/parse.c:3498 0x6d4543 parse_progunit ../../gcc/fortran/parse.c:5463 0x6d5ae4 gfc_parse_file() ../../gcc/fortran/parse.c:5972 0x718022 gfc_be_parse_file ../../gcc/fortran/f95-lang.c:198 --- $ cat zz6.f90 program p character(0) :: z1(0) character(0), allocatable :: z2(:) character(:), allocatable :: z3(:) z1 = [character(*) ::] z2 = [character(*) ::] z3 = [character(*) ::] call sub ([character(*) ::]) contains subroutine sub (z) character(*) :: z(:) print *, z end end $ gfortran-6 zz6.f90 f951: internal compiler error: in gfc_resolve_character_array_constructor, at fortran/array.c:2020