The attached patch addresses ICEs on several situations with zero-length arrays of strings or zero-length substrings, which were caused by a NULL pointer dereference in those particular situations.
To the reviewer: I am not 100% sure that my solution is correct, but it solves the issues reported and regtests cleanly on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. OK for trunk? Backports? Thanks, Harald P.S.: the PR has another ICE with integer array constructors which is unrelated and under investigation. 2019-03-05 Harald Anlauf <anl...@gmx.de> PR fortran/71203 * expr.c (simplify_const_ref): Avoid null pointer dereference. 2019-03-05 Harald Anlauf <anl...@gmx.de> PR fortran/71203 * gfortran.dg/substr_8.f90: New test.
Index: gcc/fortran/expr.c =================================================================== --- gcc/fortran/expr.c (revision 269400) +++ gcc/fortran/expr.c (working copy) @@ -1897,8 +1897,14 @@ string_len = 0; if (!p->ts.u.cl) - p->ts.u.cl = gfc_new_charlen (p->symtree->n.sym->ns, - NULL); + { + if (p->symtree) + p->ts.u.cl = gfc_new_charlen (p->symtree->n.sym->ns, + NULL); + else + p->ts.u.cl = gfc_new_charlen (gfc_current_ns, + NULL); + } else gfc_free_expr (p->ts.u.cl->length);
Index: gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/substr_8.f90 =================================================================== --- gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/substr_8.f90 (nonexistent) +++ gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/substr_8.f90 (working copy) @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +! { dg-do run } +! PR fortran/71203 - used to ICE on zero-length arrays or substrings +! Derived from original test cases by Gerhard Steinmetz + +program p + implicit none + character(3), parameter :: a(4) = ' ' + character(*), parameter :: b(4) = 'abc' + character(*), parameter :: x(*) = a(2:2)(3:1) + character(*), parameter :: y(*) = a(2:1)(3:1) + character(*), parameter :: z(*) = b(2:1)(2:3) + if (size (x) /= 1 .or. len(x) /= 0) stop 1 + if (size (y) /= 0 .or. len(y) /= 0) stop 2 + if (size (z) /= 0 .or. len(z) /= 2) stop 3 +end