[J3] 15.5.2.5 Allocatable and pointer dummy variables

[Malcolm Cohen]

> I thought that auto-targetting was defined by 15.5.2.7p2:
>
>"[...] the actual argument shall be a pointer or a valid target for the 
>dummy pointer in a pointer assignment statement."



Yes, it is the second case in that sentence. The first case is just normal argument association for pointers, nothing to do with the Fortran 2008 feature “auto-targetting”; passing a pointer actual argument to a pointer dummy argument has been valid since pointers were added to the language.

 

Cheers,

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..............Malcolm Cohen, NAG Oxford/Tokyo.

 

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