------- Comment #6 from franke dot daniel at gmail dot com 2006-10-07 07:09 ------- Tobi, > Actually this is invalid code. The string lengths in the constructor are > different, even though they have to be the same. please try the testcase in the orignal PR with idental string lengths. It will crash gfortran as well.
OTOH, a(1,1) = "x" a(1,2) = to_string(1.0) should work even if CHARACTER(len=255), DIMENSION(1,2) :: a and CHARACTER(len=32) FUNCTION to_string(x), so, why is an equivalent assignment through the array constructor invalid? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29267