[J3] [EXTERNAL] Re: Changing address of an allocatable on assignment when shapes match

[Robert Corbett]

I think I know who wrote the code that implements deallocation/allocation for allocatable variables on intrinsic assignment in the Sun/Oracle compiler.  He is a sharp programmer.  I expect the generated code to be standard conformant.

The Sun/Oracle compiler tries to avoid generating unnecessary calls to the storage allocation and deallocation routines.  For the sample code shown, space for the variable S could be allocated statically or on the stack.  The results written clearly show that space for the variable S is not allocated on the stack.  Space for S could be allocated statically, but I doubt that is happening.

Robert Corbett