http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56477
Bug #: 56477 Summary: ICE on invalid with pointer assignment to function result Classification: Unclassified Product: gcc Version: 4.8.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: fortran AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: abenso...@gmail.com The following causes an ICE with gfortran 4.8.0 r196316: module s contains function so() implicit none integer, target :: so integer, pointer :: sp sp => so return end function So end module s $ gfortran -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gfortran COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/abenson/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.8.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-trunk/configure --prefix=/home/abenson --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --disable-multilib --with-gmp=/home/abenson Thread model: posix gcc version 4.8.0 20130227 (experimental) (GCC) $ gfortran -c -o ICEtest.o ICEtest.F90 -Wall f951: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault 0x92f79f crash_signal ../../gcc-trunk/gcc/toplev.c:332 0x4fdbf2 gfc_check_pointer_assign(gfc_expr*, gfc_expr*) ../../gcc-trunk/gcc/fortran/expr.c:3734 0x5555d6 resolve_code ../../gcc-trunk/gcc/fortran/resolve.c:10261 0x557c5e resolve_codes ../../gcc-trunk/gcc/fortran/resolve.c:14972 0x557b67 resolve_codes ../../gcc-trunk/gcc/fortran/resolve.c:14958 0x548aa2 gfc_resolve ../../gcc-trunk/gcc/fortran/resolve.c:15000 0x53d186 gfc_parse_file() ../../gcc-trunk/gcc/fortran/parse.c:4608 0x579415 gfc_be_parse_file ../../gcc-trunk/gcc/fortran/f95-lang.c:189 Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. Please include the complete backtrace with any bug report. See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions. The "-Wall" is important - without the code compiles without complaint. I tagged this as invalid(?) because I don't think that giving the function return value the TARGET attribute makes sense, although I couldn't find anything that clearly says it's not allowed.