Hi! The gimplifier (because of Ada :( ) doesn't recurse to POINTER_TYPE's type when gimplifying types, so we need a DECL_EXPR to gimplify such types if they are VLAs. The following patch is an attempt to do that.
Bootstrapped/regtested on x86_64-linux and i686-linux, ok for trunk? 2016-12-14 Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> PR fortran/78757 * trans-expr.c (gfc_conv_procedure_call): Emit DECL_EXPR for the type pstr var points to. * gfortran.dg/pr78757.f90: New test. --- gcc/fortran/trans-expr.c.jj 2016-12-09 20:32:39.000000000 +0100 +++ gcc/fortran/trans-expr.c 2016-12-14 15:22:50.142968565 +0100 @@ -6009,6 +6009,19 @@ gfc_conv_procedure_call (gfc_se * se, gf { var = gfc_create_var (type, "pstr"); + /* Emit a DECL_EXPR for the VLA type. */ + tmp = TREE_TYPE (type); + if (TYPE_SIZE (tmp) + && TREE_CODE (TYPE_SIZE (tmp)) != INTEGER_CST) + { + tmp = build_decl (input_location, TYPE_DECL, NULL_TREE, tmp); + DECL_ARTIFICIAL (tmp) = 1; + DECL_IGNORED_P (tmp) = 1; + tmp = fold_build1_loc (input_location, DECL_EXPR, + TREE_TYPE (tmp), tmp); + gfc_add_expr_to_block (&se->pre, tmp); + } + if ((!comp && sym->attr.allocatable) || (comp && comp->attr.allocatable)) { --- gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/pr78757.f90.jj 2016-12-14 15:28:09.707932278 +0100 +++ gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/pr78757.f90 2016-12-14 15:27:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +! PR fortran/78757 +! { dg-do compile } +! { dg-options "-O1" } + +program pr78757 + implicit none + character (len = 30), target :: x + character (len = 30), pointer :: s + s => foo (70_8) +contains + function foo (i) + integer (8) :: i + character (len = i), pointer :: foo + foo => x + end function foo +end program pr78757 Jakub