pointer pairing and gfortran

[Geoffrey Cowles]

gfortran developers,

     I am trying to compile a chunk of legacy code using gfortran on  
OS X.  It is rejecting a pointer pairing statement that exists in an  
include file used for most subroutines.  Essentially it looks like this

**********************
program test
integer ikeys
pointer (pikeys,ikeys)
end

*****************



IBM and Absoft compile the code without any problem.  I have never  
seen this statement before although I have used modern Fortran 90  
pointers.  Will pointer pairing be supported by gfortran and/or is  
there an easy workaround using supported syntax.

Thanks for any Help

-Geoff