As asked by Paul Richard Thomas on IRC I have committed the following patch to
trunk. I’ll commit it to the gcc-5 branch tomorrow.
Dominique
Index: gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
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--- gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog (revision 234849)
+++ gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog (working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2016-04-09 Dominique d'Humieres <domi...@lps.ens.fr>
+
+ PR fortran/70592
+ * gfortran.dg/deferred_character_16.f90: New test.
+
2016-04-09 Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com>
PR tree-optimization/70586
Index: gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/deferred_character_16.f90
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--- gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/deferred_character_16.f90 (nonexistent)
+++ gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/deferred_character_16.f90 (working copy)
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+! { dg-do run }
+! PR70592 dynamically-allocated character array
+! Contributed by Peter Knowles <knowle...@cardiff.ac.uk>
+!
+PROGRAM main
+ character(len=7) :: res
+ CHARACTER(len=:), DIMENSION(:), POINTER :: cp
+ INTEGER :: i
+ ALLOCATE(CHARACTER(len=1) :: cp(1:6))
+ if (SIZE(cp) /= 6 .or. LBOUND(cp,1) /= 1 .or. UBOUND(cp,1) /= 6) call abort()
+ cp(1)='1'
+ cp(2)='2'
+ cp(3)='3'
+ cp(4)='4'
+ cp(5)='5'
+ cp(6)='6'
+ write (res, *) cp
+ if (res /= ' 123456') call abort()
+END PROGRAM main
