https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77391
kargl at gcc dot gnu.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kargl at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #3 from kargl at gcc dot gnu.org --- (In reply to Dominique d'Humieres from comment #2) > Sorry, but I think the constraint C402 does not apply to named constants > (AKA PARAMETER). It applies. C402 is a number constraint. A Fortran processor must report violations of a constraint. C402 (R401) A colon shall not be used as a type-param-value except in the declaration of an entity or component that has the POINTER or ALLOCATABLE attribute. There is no "except for a named constant". > Last point, I don't see how a PARAMETER can be ALLOCATABLE. It takes all of 2 minutes to see that gfortran already reports conflicts troutmask:sgk[208] gfc7 -c a.f90 a.f90:3:34: character(len=:),parameter,pointer :: ident2="which appears to be an extension?" 1 Error: PARAMETER attribute conflicts with POINTER attribute at (1) troutmask:sgk[209] gfc7 -c a.f90 a.f90:3:26: character(len=:),parameter,allocatable :: ident2="which appears to be an extension?" 1 Error: PARAMETER attribute conflicts with ALLOCATABLE attribute at (1)