[RFC, Fortran, (pr66775)] Allocatable function result

[Mikael Morin]

Hello all,

I'm not completely convinced by the standard excerpts that have been
quoted about this topic, as they don't have any explicit mention of
allocatable variables/expressions.
For what it's worth, in my opinion, the handling of allocatable that was
proposed by Andre makes sense to me.  It's consistent with what is done
for derived type assignment, the lhs' allocatable components are
deallocated if their rhs counter part are unallocated.  Doing the same
for whole objects would be, well, consistent.
What is done by the other compilers?

Mikael