Some questions about gfortran.

[Julien Lancien]

Nobody has a clue on this, or can redirect me to another mailing list
where I should ask this question ?

Thanks.

On 6/23/05, Julien Lancien <calexicoz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I'm pretty new to fortran, and I've got some questions I found no answer to.
> 
> When compiling with gfortran, I found that I cannot do the following things :
> 
> * cross reference types , ie :
> 
> type a
>   type(b), pointer :: b
> end type a
> 
> type b
>   type(a), pointer :: a
> end type a
> 
> * using function result as argument, ie
> 
>    test = associated(getpointer(p))
> 
>    This will end up with :
> 
>       Internal Error at (1):
>       gfc_variable_attr(): Expression isn't a variable
> 
>    Whereas doing that works :
> 
>    tmp => getpointer(p)
>    test = associated(tmp)
> 
>    Note : the getpointer function is defined in a module, which is
> called at the beginning using : use modulename
> 
> I'm unsure if I cannot do these things because they are not part of
> the fortran 90 standards, or if this is because gfortran does not
> support them yet.
> 
> I had no problem doing that with the portland group compiler, but
> maybe it's just more permissive.
> 
> Anyone can help me on this ?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
>