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> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:49:37 +0200
>
> Hi Tobias,
>
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 16:04:51, Tobias Burnus wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tobias,
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:39:57PM +0200, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
>>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:37:46, Tobias Burnus wrote:
>>> Hmm,
>>>
>>> I was hoping somehow that only that test case is broken,
>>> and needs to be fixed. The target attribute is somehow simple,
>>> it implies intent(in) and the actual value will in most cases
>>> be a pointer, as in the example.
>>
>> I think that passing another nonpointer TARGET to a dummy argument
>> which has a TARGET attribute is at least as common as passing a
>> POINTER to a TARGET.
>>
>> TARGET is roughtly the opposite to the restrict qualifier. By default
>> any nonpointer variable does not alias with something else, unless
>> it has the TARGET attribute; if it has, it (its address) can then
>> be assigned to a pointer. POINTER intrinsically alias and cannot
>> have the TARGET attribute.
>>
>>>> Pointer -> Nonalloc
>>>> Allocatable -> Noalloc
>>>> Nonallocatable*/Allocatable* -> Pointer with intent(in)
>>>
>>> Well, this approach does not handle intent(inout) at all.
>>
>>
>
> Now I have created a test case for the different aliasing issues
> with may arise with scalar objects.
>
> As you pointed out, also conversions of allocatable -> nonalloc,
> allocatable -> pointer and nonalloc -> pointer  turn out to
> violate the strict aliasing rules. However, conversions of
> arrays of objects with different attributes seem to be safe.
>
> I have not been able to find an example where it would be
> necessary to write the modified class object back to the original
> location. But I am not really a Fortran expert.
>
> Unfortunately there are also conversions of optional allocatable ->
> optional pointer, which complicate the whole thing quite a lot.
> I have found these in class_optional_2.f90.
>
> Boot-strapped and regression-tested on x86_64-linux-gnu.
> OK for trunk?
>
>
> Thanks
> Bernd.
>
                                          

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