On Saturday 18 February 2012 14:33:09 Tobias Burnus wrote: > The patch consists of two parts: > > * The pointer check in gfc_check_vardef_context didn't honour > polymorphic variables > > * Passing a TYPE to a CLASS is not allowed if CLASS is a pointer or > allocatable as the actual argument cannot change its effective type. > However, if the dummy is an intent(in)-pointer, there is no risk of > doing so. Thus, one can allow this. > > The latter is an interpretation request (F08/0073), which passed the J3 > meeting. It is in line of the Fortran 2008 feature, where one can pass a > TARGET variable (i.e. nonpointer) to an intent-in pointer dummy argument. > > Build and regtested on x86-64-linux > OK for the (4.8) trunk? > OK. Thanks.
Mikael
