[Bug fortran/19673] pointer function with RESULT specified returns pointer to "ptr" rather than "*ptr"

[paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr]

------- Additional Comments From paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr  2005-03-03 23:24 -------
Subject: Re:  pointer function with RESULT specified returns pointer to "ptr" rather than "*ptr"

Is this connected with functions that return character pointers being so 
completely screwed up?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tobi at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: <paulthomas2@wanadoo.fr>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:54 PM
Subject: [Bug fortran/19673] pointer function with RESULT specified returns 
pointer to "ptr" rather than "*ptr"


>
> ------- Additional Comments From tobi at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-03-03 
> 22:54 -------
> In this particular case (sym vs sym->result) the right thing IMO would be 
> to
> either *always* create a sym->result variable, which takes on all the 
> functions
> attributes, or to *always* copy the attributes of the result variable to 
> the
> function's symbol.  This should happen once the function has been 
> completely
> resolved.  I believe that the latter option could be more difficult for 
> the
> exact reasons that the standard requires the use of RESULT in certain 
> cases.
>
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