(j3.2006) Question about deferred length type parameters

[Bill Long]

On Sep 24, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Van Snyder <Van.Snyder at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> If a pointer has deferred length type parameters, what becomes of them
> when the pointer association status becomes disassociated (16.5.2.4) or
> undefined (16.5.2.5)?  Do they remain defined (assuming they were
> defined), or do they become undefined?
> 
> 6.4.5 and 13.7.94 say you can't inquire them, but are there other cases?
> One case I can imagine is that one establishes their values using
> pointer assignment or allocation, deallocates the pointer, then
> establishes an association status for it using C_F_POINTER.  Do the
> deferred length parameters of FPTR thereby have defined values?
> 
> Do we need to specify in 4.2p8 that the initial values of deferred
> length type parameters of a pointer are undefined, unless the pointer is
> initially associated?  6.4.5 and 13.7.94 say you can't inquire them if
> the pointer is not associated, but what if it became associated using
> C_F_POINTER, which cannot assign values to deferred length parameters?

Doesn?t C_F_POINTER require that the new target of FPTR have the same type *and type parameters* as FPTR.  

Cheers,
Bill

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