https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65677
Bug ID: 65677 Summary: Incomplete assignment on deferred-length character variable Product: gcc Version: 5.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: fortran Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: jwmwalrus at gmail dot com The code below fails to produce the expected results. module mod1 implicit none contains subroutine getKeyword(string, keyword, rest) character(:), allocatable, intent(IN) :: string character(:), allocatable, intent(OUT) :: keyword, rest integer :: idx character(:), allocatable :: text keyword = '' rest = '' text = string text = ADJUSTL(text(2:)) !*** idx = INDEX(text, ' ') if (idx == 0) then keyword = TRIM(text) else keyword = text(:idx-1) rest = TRIM(ADJUSTL(text(idx+1:))) endif end subroutine end module mod1 use mod1 implicit none character(:), allocatable :: line, keyword, rest line = '@HERE IT IS' call getKeyword(line, keyword, rest) print *, 'line: ', line print *, 'keyword: ', keyword print *, 'rest: ', rest end It seems that whenever a deferred-length character variable that's being assigned something is also a substring in the right-hand side expression, assignment is wrong/incomplete. The offending line is marked with "!***" in the code. This is the output I get: ~$ ll `which gfortran-5.0` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 35 Feb 26 11:01 /usr/local/bin/gfortran-5.0 -> ../../lib/gcc-snapshot/bin/gfortran* ~$ gfortran-5.0 test_deferred.f90 ~$ ./a.out line: @HERE IT IS keyword: HERE rest: IT I So far I've noticed the error occurs only when the substring does not coincide with the beginning of the string. I get the same error with gfortran 4.9. The system and compiler information is: $ lsb_release -rd && gfortran-5.0 -v Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie) Release: 8.0 Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gfortran-5.0 COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/libexec/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5.0.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 20150404-1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-snapshot/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --disable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=c++98 --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-snap-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-snap-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-snap-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --with-arch-32=i586 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --disable-werror --enable-checking=yes --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 5.0.0 20150404 (experimental) [trunk revision 221867] (Debian 20150404-1)