https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97920
Paul Thomas <pault at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |WAITING CC| |pault at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #2 from Paul Thomas <pault at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Martin Liška from comment #1) > Confirmed with valgrind. At least as old as 4.9.0. Hi, >From a quick perusal of the standard, I find in F2003 16.4.2.1: "Unless a pointer is initialized (explicitly or by default), it has an initial association status of undefined. A pointer may be initialized to have an association status of disassociated". In your testcase, the status of b%b is undefined and so the compiler can do anything it wants with it, including segfaulting. I think therefore that you should initialize the derived types in your application as follows: type t1 real, dimension(:), pointer :: a => NULL () contains final :: t1f end type type, extends(t1) :: t2 real, dimension(:), pointer :: b => NULL () contains final :: t2f end type This clears the valgrind error "Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)". Also the finalization is invoked so that the programme completes with zero memory allocation, To my surprise (probably due to standard ignorance), leaving the declared type declarations as you have them, and declaring 'b' as type(t2) :: b = t2 (NULL(), NULL()) clears the valgrind fault but no finalization occurs. I notice that finalization does not occur if an entity has the save attribute. gfortran assigns 'b' the IMPLICIT-SAVE attribute, which is why the finalization does not occur. I have been unable to find whether or not this is conforming. However, initializing 'b' in an assignment: b = t2(NULL(), NULL()) clears the valgrind fault and results in the deallocation of memory. This confirms my suspicion about the save attribute. In conclusion, I do not believe that this is a bug. If you do not use pointers as pointers, make them allocatable instead. These are automatically nullified on entry into scope. Thanks for the report by the way! Paul