A somewhat similar issue was described in (fixed?) PR #24862.
$> cat ie.f90
PROGRAM ie
TYPE foo
INTEGER :: value
END TYPE
TYPE foo_array
TYPE(foo), DIMENSION(:), POINTER :: array
END TYPE
TYPE(foo_array) :: array_holder
INTEGER, DIMENSION(:), POINTER :: array_ptr
ALLOCATE( array_holder%array(3) )
array_holder%array = (/ foo(1), foo(2), foo(3) /)
WRITE(*,*) array_holder%array%value
array_ptr => array_holder%array%value
WRITE(*,*) array_ptr
END PROGRAM
$> gfortran-svn -g -Wall ie.f90
$> ./a.out
1 2 3
At line 18 of file ie.f90
Internal Error: Derived type I/O should have been handled via the frontend.
$> gfortran-svn -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../../svn/gcc/configure --prefix=$(localpath) --disable-nls
--enable-threads=posix --enable-shared --enable-bootstrap --with-system-zlib
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --program-suffix=-svn
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.3.0 20061023 (experimental)
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Summary: Internal Error: Derived type I/O should have been
handled via the frontend
Product: gcc
Version: 4.3.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: fortran
AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
ReportedBy: franke dot daniel at gmail dot com
GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29606
