On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 06:46:03PM +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote: > > this patch is a follow up to the recent patch on RESHAPE with an > allocatable LHS. It turned out that if the LHS is not allocated or has > the wrong shape, the bounds are not correctly set. Or to be precise: The > just internally used* "stride" is not set correctly. > > Result: Either the wrong elements were accessed or - in particular for > unallocated arrays with "garbage" or malloc_perturb_ initialization - a > segfault occurred. Especially the case of having the wrong values is nasty! > > The bug was found by Dominique, who found it when looking at the > chapter08/puppeteer_f2003 example in Damian (et al.)'s book. Thanks > Dominique! > > While that's not a regression, I think the bug is seriously enough and > the fix simple enough that it should also be applied to 4.6. > > Thus: OK for the trunk and 4.6? (The patch has been build and regtested > on x86-64-linux.) >
OK for both trunk and 4.6. Thanks for tracking down the problem. -- Steve
