internal compiler error in gfortran

[Paul Thomas]

This is PR15326, which is the next on my list of character related bugs. 
 I have been working on it sporadically for a few weeks.

Up to a minor nasty in multiple declarations, two things need to be done:

(i) The returned string needs to be allocated space.  This is relatively 
easy because anything other than a return value is treated correctly.
(ii) More seriously, the character length needs to be returned to the 
caller.  This requires some non-trivial surgery to function calls that I 
just have not successfully accomplished yet.

I am onto it, though!

Paul T