http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46991
Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |burnus at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #2 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-12-23 22:33:24 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > Error: pr46991.f90, line 16: CLASS array A must be a pointer, allocatable or > assumed-shape I think that's a bug in NAG - at least, I cannot find anything in the standard which prohibits explicit-size or assumed-size polymorphic arrays. > The code modified this way still does not compile with current trunk: > A = [ (REC2(I, I+1), I = 1, 10) ] > 1 > Error: Variable must not be polymorphic in intrinsic assignment at (1) - check > that there is a matching specific subroutine for '=' operator See PR43366. That's a Fortran 2008 feature. Assignment to a polymorphic LHS variable is allowed, if and only if it is allocatable; it makes use of the realloc-on-assignment feature.