https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85954
--- Comment #1 from G. Steinmetz <gs...@t-online.de> --- Assigned directly : $ cat z2.f90 program p character(:), allocatable :: z(:) call s(z) contains subroutine s(x) character(:), allocatable :: x(:) x = ['abc'] print *, allocated(x), size(x), len(x), x end end $ gfortran-9-20180527 z2.f90 -static-libgfortran $ a.out T 1 3 abc