The attached program never reaches the error message printout, contrary to the fact that stat= is specified in the allocate statement (if the runtime aborts, what's the point of stat= ?) [EMAIL PROTECTED] bugtest]$ gfortran -o tryalloc tryalloc.f90 [EMAIL PROTECTED] bugtest]$ ./tryalloc Fortran runtime error: Attempt to allocate negative amount of memory. Possible integer overflow [EMAIL PROTECTED] bugtest]$ gfortran -v Using built-in specs. Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-4.2.0/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc42 --with-mpfr=/home/travel/GCC/BUILDS/mpfr --with-gmp-lib=/home/travel/GCC/BUILDS/gmp/lib/ --with-gmp=/home/travel/GCC/BUILDS/gmp Thread model: posix gcc version 4.2.0
-- Summary: Execution stops with stat= in ALLOCATE Product: gcc Version: 4.2.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: fortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: sfilippone at uniroma2 dot it GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32124