[PATCH, PR fortran/45170] -- properly translates substring reference

Mikael Morin mikael.morin@sfr.fr
Sun Aug 28 21:37:00 GMT 2011


On Saturday 27 August 2011 02:34:24 Steve Kargl wrote:
> The attached patch allows gfortran to compile the
> attached testcase.  The resulting executable runs
> as expected.
> 
> Short story:
> 
>   character(len=20) :: string = 'some text here'
>   character(len=:), allocatable :: s
>   n = 5
>   allocate(s, source=string(:n))
> 
> The length of s is determined from the expression in
> the source= argument.  If this expression is a lonely
> substring reference as in the above, then gfortran
> does set the correct length.  This patch fixes this. 
... does *not* set the correct length, I suppose?

> OK for trunk?
It is OK. Rather obvious. Thanks

Mikael



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