https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85547
--- Comment #1 from Walter Spector <w6ws at earthlink dot net> --- Slightly different test case - using allocatable string length instead of the trims. However the same problems are evident: program testch implicit none character(:), allocatable :: path path = 'xyz/' call print_strings ((/ character(16) :: & path // "one", & path // "three", & path // "five", & path // "eight", & path // "forty two" /) ) contains subroutine print_strings (s) character(*), intent(in) :: s(:) integer :: i do, i=1, size(s) print *, i, '>', s(i), '<' end do end subroutine end program wws@w6ws-4:/tmp$ /usr/local/gcc-trunk/bin/gfortran -g testch.f90 wws@w6ws-4:/tmp$ a.out 1 >xyz/one< 2 >xyz/thr< 3 >xyz/fiv< 4 >xyz/eig< 5 >xyz/for< *** Error in `a.out': free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x000000000217b640 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x777e5)[0x7fac7b49c7e5] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x8037a)[0x7fac7b4a537a] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(cfree+0x4c)[0x7fac7b4a953c] a.out[0x401280] a.out[0x4012c5] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7fac7b445830] a.out[0x400949] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-00402000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 40632824 /tmp/a.out 00601000-00602000 rw-p 00001000 08:0a 40632824 /tmp/a.out 02178000-02199000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7fac74000000-7fac74021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fac74021000-7fac78000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 7fac7b425000-7fac7b5e5000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 20190243 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so 7fac7b5e5000-7fac7b7e5000 ---p 001c0000 08:0a 20190243 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so 7fac7b7e5000-7fac7b7e9000 r--p 001c0000 08:0a 20190243 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so 7fac7b7e9000-7fac7b7eb000 rw-p 001c4000 08:0a 20190243 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.23.so 7fac7b7eb000-7fac7b7ef000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fac7b7ef000-7fac7b82e000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 48497154 /usr/local/gcc-trunk/lib64/libquadmath.so.0.0.0 7fac7b82e000-7fac7ba2d000 ---p 0003f000 08:0a 48497154 /usr/local/gcc-trunk/lib64/libquadmath.so.0.0.0 7fac7ba2d000-7fac7ba2e000 rw-p 0003e000 08:0a 48497154 /usr/local/gcc-trunk/lib64/libquadmath.so.0.0.0 7fac7ba2e000-7fac7ba45000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 48497146 /usr/local/gcc-trunk/lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 7fac7ba45000-7fac7bc44000 ---p 00017000 08:0a 48497146 /usr/local/gcc-trunk/lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 7fac7bc44000-7fac7bc45000 rw-p 00016000 08:0a 48497146 /usr/local/gcc-trunk/lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 7fac7bc45000-7fac7bd4d000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 20185261 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.23.so 7fac7bd4d000-7fac7bf4c000 ---p 00108000 08:0a 20185261 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.23.so 7fac7bf4c000-7fac7bf4d000 r--p 00107000 08:0a 20185261 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.23.so 7fac7bf4d000-7fac7bf4e000 rw-p 00108000 08:0a 20185261 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.23.so 7fac7bf4e000-7fac7c1b8000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 48497159 /usr/local/gcc-trunk/lib64/libgfortran.so.5.0.0 7fac7c1b8000-7fac7c3b8000 ---p 0026a000 08:0a 48497159 /usr/local/gcc-trunk/lib64/libgfortran.so.5.0.0 7fac7c3b8000-7fac7c3ba000 rw-p 0026a000 08:0a 48497159 /usr/local/gcc-trunk/lib64/libgfortran.so.5.0.0 7fac7c3ba000-7fac7c3bb000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fac7c3bb000-7fac7c3e1000 r-xp 00000000 08:0a 20190239 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so 7fac7c5b9000-7fac7c5bd000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fac7c5de000-7fac7c5e0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fac7c5e0000-7fac7c5e1000 r--p 00025000 08:0a 20190239 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so 7fac7c5e1000-7fac7c5e2000 rw-p 00026000 08:0a 20190239 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.23.so 7fac7c5e2000-7fac7c5e3000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7ffd9dc1f000-7ffd9dc40000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7ffd9dd24000-7ffd9dd27000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0 [vvar] 7ffd9dd27000-7ffd9dd29000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] Program received signal SIGABRT: Process abort signal. Backtrace for this error: #0 0x7fac7b45a4af in ??? #1 0x7fac7b45a428 in ??? #2 0x7fac7b45c029 in ??? #3 0x7fac7b49c7e9 in ??? #4 0x7fac7b4a5379 in ??? #5 0x7fac7b4a953b in ??? #6 0x40127f in testch at /tmp/testch.f90:11 #7 0x4012c4 in main at /tmp/testch.f90:11 Aborted (core dumped) wws@w6ws-4:/tmp$