On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:36:42PM +0200, Mikael Morin wrote: > On Saturday 27 August 2011 02:34:24 Steve Kargl wrote: > > The attached patch allows gfortran to compile the > > attached testcase. The resulting executable runs > > as expected. > > > > Short story: > > > > character(len=20) :: string = 'some text here' > > character(len=:), allocatable :: s > > n = 5 > > allocate(s, source=string(:n)) > > > > The length of s is determined from the expression in > > the source= argument. If this expression is a lonely > > substring reference as in the above, then gfortran > > does set the correct length. This patch fixes this. > ... does *not* set the correct length, I suppose? > > > OK for trunk? > It is OK. Rather obvious. Thanks >
Thanks. Committed revision 178329. -- Steve
