This problem concerned associate targets being substrings. It turns out that they are returned as pointer types (with a different cast for unity based substrings ***sigh***) and so can be assigned directly to the associate name. The patch quite simply removed the condition that such targets be allocatable, pointer or dummy.
I noticed in the course of working up the testcase that character (:), pointer :: ptr => NULL() character (6), target :: tgt = 'lmnopq' ptr => tgt print *, len (ptr), ptr end ICEs on the NULL initialization of the pointer but works fine if this is removed. Has this already been posted as a PR? Bootstrapped and regtested on FC28/x86_64 - OK for trunk? Paul 2018-10-17 Paul Thomas <pa...@gcc.gnu.org> PR fortran/58618 * trans-stmt.c (trans_associate_var): All strings that return as pointer types can be assigned directly to the associate name so remove 'attr' and the condition that uses it. 2018-10-17 Paul Thomas <pa...@gcc.gnu.org> PR fortran/58618 * gfortran.dg/associate_45.f90 : New test.
Index: gcc/fortran/trans-stmt.c =================================================================== *** gcc/fortran/trans-stmt.c (revision 265231) --- gcc/fortran/trans-stmt.c (working copy) *************** trans_associate_var (gfc_symbol *sym, gf *** 1656,1662 **** bool need_len_assign; bool whole_array = true; gfc_ref *ref; - symbol_attribute attr; gcc_assert (sym->assoc); e = sym->assoc->target; --- 1656,1661 ---- *************** trans_associate_var (gfc_symbol *sym, gf *** 1916,1924 **** } } - attr = gfc_expr_attr (e); if (sym->ts.type == BT_CHARACTER && e->ts.type == BT_CHARACTER - && (attr.allocatable || attr.pointer || attr.dummy) && POINTER_TYPE_P (TREE_TYPE (se.expr))) { /* These are pointer types already. */ --- 1915,1921 ---- *************** trans_associate_var (gfc_symbol *sym, gf *** 1926,1933 **** } else { ! tmp = TREE_TYPE (sym->backend_decl); ! tmp = gfc_build_addr_expr (tmp, se.expr); } gfc_add_modify (&se.pre, sym->backend_decl, tmp); --- 1923,1930 ---- } else { ! tmp = TREE_TYPE (sym->backend_decl); ! tmp = gfc_build_addr_expr (tmp, se.expr); } gfc_add_modify (&se.pre, sym->backend_decl, tmp); Index: gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/associate_45.f90 =================================================================== *** gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/associate_45.f90 (nonexistent) --- gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/associate_45.f90 (working copy) *************** *** 0 **** --- 1,38 ---- + ! { dg-do run } + ! + ! Test the fix for PR58618 by checking that substring associate targets + ! work correctly. + ! + ! Contributed by Vladimir Fuka <vladimir.f...@gmail.com> + ! + character(5) :: s(2) = ['abcde','fghij'] + character (6), pointer :: ptr => NULL() + character (6), target :: tgt = 'lmnopq' + + associate (x=>s(2)(3:4)) + if (x .ne. 'hi') stop 1 + x = 'uv' + end associate + if (any (s .ne. ['abcde','fguvj'])) stop 2 + + ! Unity based substrings are cast differently. */ + associate (x=>s(1)(1:4)) + if (x .ne. 'abcd') stop 3 + x(2:3) = 'wx' + end associate + if (any (s .ne. ['awxde','fguvj'])) stop 4 + + ! Make sure that possible misidentifications do not occur. + ptr => tgt + associate (x=>ptr) + if (x .ne. 'lmnopq') stop 5 + x(2:3) = 'wx' + end associate + if (tgt .ne. 'lwxopq') stop 6 + + associate (x=>ptr(5:6)) + if (x .ne. 'pq') stop 7 + x = 'wx' + end associate + if (tgt .ne. 'lwxowx') stop 8 + end