https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80257
Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq at lps dot ens.fr> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |WAITING Last reconfirmed| |2017-03-30 Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq at lps dot ens.fr> --- If you compile the test with -fcheck=pointer, you should see at run time something such as Hello World Hello World At line 53 of file /opt/gcc/_clean/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/pointer_check_1.f90 Fortran runtime error: Allocatable actual argument 'alloc2' is not allocated Error termination. Backtrace: #0 0x10b369bbc #1 0x10b36a8c5 #2 0x10b36ac6a #3 0x10b362494 #4 0x10b362666 Am I understanding correctly comment 0 that you don't see the "Hello World"? Did you test pointer_check_2.f90 and pointer_check_3.f90? They should behave as pointer_check_1.f90.