https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83224
Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq at lps dot ens.fr> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P3 |P4 Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Last reconfirmed| |2017-11-30 Blocks| |68241 Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #1 from Dominique d'Humieres <dominiq at lps dot ens.fr> --- Confirmed from 5.5.0 up to trunk. With the reduced test case program dusty_corner ! exercise f2008 CHARACTER features implicit none character(len=:),allocatable :: words(:) character(len=:),allocatable :: words1(:), words2(:) words1=[character(len=3) :: 'one', 'two'] words2=[character(len=5) :: words1, 'three'] write(*,'(5("[",a,"]":))')words2 words=[character(len=3) :: 'one', 'two'] words=[character(len=5) :: words, 'three'] write(*,'(5("[",a,"]":))')words end program dusty_corner I get [one ][two ][three] [onetw][twoth][three] The problem comes from using 'words' in both sides of the assignment. Referenced Bugs: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68241 [Bug 68241] [meta-bug] [F03] Deferred-length character