[Bug fortran/80477] [OOP] Polymorphic function result generates memory leak

[stefano.zaghi at cnr dot it]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80477

--- Comment #6 from Stefano Zaghi <stefano.zaghi at cnr dot it> ---
Dear Janus,

thank you very much for your help, it is really appreciated.

> Note that most gfortran developers actually sacrifice their spare time to  contribute, without receiving any kind of financial reward for it.

> I contributed large parts of the OOP implementation when I was a student (with some funding via GSoC). Nowadays my day job and private life keeps me from spending too much time on gfotran, but I still try to contribute the occasional bug fix if I can.

As I tried to clarify to Steve, mine was absolutely not a polemic question:
although my contributions are definitely not equal to yours, I am also an
active FOSS developer doing things for the community spending my free time, I
clearly understand the FOSS developing effort. 

What I meant was "because the bug is known from 2014, can I conclude that there
are not any developer who takes care (for time/interest lacking) about this in
a reasonable time?". It is just a hint-request about a roadmap (I have to
decide how to progress my work, gnu was a key feature), absolutely no critics
about you, you are my superheros. My concern was that the bug was very
difficult to solve and you are too few to solve it.

I am going to create a detailed report (within a github repository) taking into
account many combinations: it seems that if I add an allocatable component
alongside the static one, the leaks disappear (although this does not happen in
a real,omplex code where both static and dynamic components are present). If it
is of some help, I would like to share with you.

My best regards.