[Bug fortran/54597] Function can't return string without trailing spaces

[dongli at lasg dot iap.ac.cn]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54597

--- Comment #2 from Li Dong <dongli at lasg dot iap.ac.cn> 2012-09-16 08:52:00 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > I would like to write a function that will return string without trailing
> > spaces, the prototype of the function is as following:
> > 
> > module mod
> > 
> > contains
> > 
> >     function foo()
> > 
> >         character(*), allocatable :: foo
> >         character(1000) bar
> > 
> >         bar = "abc"
> >         foo = bar
> > 
> >     end function foo
> > 
> > end module mod
> > 
> > program main
> > 
> >     use mod
> > 
> >     write(*, *) """", foo(), """"
> > 
> > end program main
> > 
> > The result of "gfortran" still contains trailing spaces, but "ifort" works as
> > expected.
> 
> Is this the actually code you want to compile?
> 
> laptop:kargl[207] gfortran -o z d.f90
> d.f90:5.4:
> 
>     function foo()
>     1
> Error: Character-valued module procedure 'foo' at (1) must not be\
>    assumed length

Yes, it is. I am using gfortran 4.7.1.