ICE on deferred-length, allocatable character variable function result

[Rouson, Damian]

Comment 9 on Bug (45170
<http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45170) states that gfortran
does not yet support "function result variables which are
character(len=:), pointer".  Presumably this also implies a lack ofsupport
for replacing these with allocatable, deferred-length character variables.
 I'm adding the case below because it produces an ICE with gfortran 4.6.1.
 This is a reduced case.  In my intended application, the "speaker" type
is abstract with deferred "speak" procedure that implements an abstract
interface matching the actual "speak" procedure below:



$ cat speaker.F90 
module speaker_class
  type speaker
  contains
    procedure :: speak
  end type   
contains
  function speak(this)
    class(speaker) ,intent(in) :: this
    character(:) ,allocatable  :: speak
  end function
  subroutine say_something(somebody)
    class(speaker) :: somebody
    print *,somebody%speak()
  end subroutine
end module

$ gfortran -c speaker.F90
speaker.F90: In function 'say_something':
speaker.F90:13:0: internal compiler error: in fold_convert_loc, at
fold-const.c:1906
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