[Bug fortran/51175] New: Memory Leak with Transfer intrinsic

[stefano.borini at ferrara dot linux.it]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51175

             Bug #: 51175
           Summary: Memory Leak with Transfer intrinsic
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.6.2
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: fortran
        AssignedTo: unassigned@gcc.gnu.org
        ReportedBy: stefano.borini@ferrara.linux.it


Hello,

I am using gfortran 4.6.2 on MacOSX 10.7. 
It appears that this code involving transfer generates a memory leak

module LeakModule
   implicit none

contains


   subroutine Leaking(stringdata, string)
      character(len=1), intent(in)  :: stringdata(:)
      character(len=*), intent(out) :: string
      character(len=1)                                  :: singleChar(1)
      !integer                                     :: numChars
      !numChars = size(transfer(stringdata,singleChar))
      !string = ''
      string = transfer(stringdata, string)
      !string(numChars+1:) = ' '
   end subroutine

   subroutine Foo()
      character(len=1) :: stringdata(3)
      character(len=20) :: outstring

      stringdata(1) = 'H'
      stringdata(2) = 'i'
      stringdata(3) = '!'

      call Leaking(stringdata, outstring)
      print *, outstring
   end subroutine

end module
program test
   use LeakModule

   call foo()

end 

According to the produced assembler, malloc gets called inside the Leaking
routine, but the asm of the caller never issues a free of that allocated
memory. The same happens even if the string is a local variable with specified
len. 

The commented code (calculating the size of the data involved) correctly issues
one malloc and one free.

Thanks