The following patch avoids the dereferencing of a null pointer, which led to an ICE. The patch here is a slight variation on the patch submitted by drikosev at otenet dot gr. The testcase is a slight variation on the code submitted by FX.
Built and regression tested on x86_64-*-freebsd. OK to commit? 2015-03-27 Steven G. Kargl <ka...@gcc.gnu.org> PR fortran/65429 * decl.c (add_init_expr_to_sym): Do not dereference a null pointer. 2015-03-27 Steven G. Kargl <ka...@gcc.gnu.org> PR fortran/65429 * pr65429.f90: New test. -- Steve Index: gcc/fortran/decl.c =================================================================== --- gcc/fortran/decl.c (revision 220943) +++ gcc/fortran/decl.c (working copy) @@ -1406,7 +1406,7 @@ add_init_expr_to_sym (const char *name, { gfc_constructor *c; c = gfc_constructor_first (init->value.constructor); - clen = c->expr->value.character.length; + clen = c ? c->expr->value.character.length : 0; sym->ts.u.cl->length = gfc_get_int_expr (gfc_default_integer_kind, NULL, clen); Index: gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/pr65429.f90 =================================================================== --- gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/pr65429.f90 (revision 0) +++ gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/pr65429.f90 (working copy) @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +! { dg-do run } +! PR fortran/65429 +program foo +character(*), parameter :: s(*) = [ character(5) :: 'abcde', 'fghij' ] +if (s(1) /= 'abcde') call abort +if (s(2) /= 'fghij') call abort +end program foo +