------- Comment #4 from janus at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-10-16 19:10 ------- Note: It seems this will be legal again in F08.
7.2.1.2 Intrinsic assignment statement An intrinsic assignment statement is an assignment statement that is not a defined assignment statement (7.2.1.4). In an intrinsic assignment statement, (1) if the variable is polymorphic it shall be allocatable and not a coarray, ... (4) if the variable is polymorphic it shall be type compatible with expr ; otherwise the declared types of the variable and expr shall conform as specified in Table 7.10, ... -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41719
