[Bug fortran/32386] Pure function not allowed in specification expression

["John dot Harper at mcs dot vuw dot ac dot nz" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #4 from John dot Harper at mcs dot vuw dot ac dot nz  2007-06-18 02:44 -------
Subject: Re:  Pure function not allowed in specification
 expression

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, kargl at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:

> Date: 18 Jun 2007 01:46:09 -0000
> From: kargl at gcc dot gnu dot org <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
> To: john.harper@vuw.ac.nz
> Subject: [Bug fortran/32386] Pure function not allowed in specification
>     expression
> 
>
>
> ------- Comment #2 from kargl at gcc dot gnu dot org  2007-06-18 01:46 -------
> According to Lahey, the code is invalid.
>
> Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95 Source Check Output
>
> Compiling program unit halvestring at line 1:
> Compiling program unit testspec at line 9:
>  2049-S: "SOURCE.F90", line 13: Automatic object 'stringb' cannot be specified
> in the main program unit.
> Encountered 1 error, 0 warnings, 0 informations in file SOURCE.F90.
> Compiling file SOURCE.F90.
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So I think Lahey is wrong. My stringb is not an automatic object; it is
a character string whose length is LEN of a pure module function of a 
constant.

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