On Saturday 27 August 2011 02:34:24 Steve Kargl wrote: > The attached patch allows gfortran to compile the > attached testcase. The resulting executable runs > as expected. > > Short story: > > character(len=20) :: string = 'some text here' > character(len=:), allocatable :: s > n = 5 > allocate(s, source=string(:n)) > > The length of s is determined from the expression in > the source= argument. If this expression is a lonely > substring reference as in the above, then gfortran > does set the correct length. This patch fixes this. ... does *not* set the correct length, I suppose?
> OK for trunk? It is OK. Rather obvious. Thanks Mikael
