https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71880
--- Comment #1 from Valery Weber <valeryweber at hotmail dot com> --- what about this one? cat gcc-6.1b.f90 program t character(:), dimension(:), allocatable, target :: c character(:), dimension(:), pointer :: p allocate(c(10),source='X') p=>c(:) write(*,*) 'p=<',p(1),'> c=<',c(1),'>',len(p(1)) end program t gfortran-6.1.0 gcc-6.1b.f90 ./a.out p=<XXXXXXXXXX� p=<> c=<X> 32674