https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68225
--- Comment #8 from Gerhard Steinmetz <gerhard.steinmetz.fort...@t-online.de> --- Addendum : $ cat zzp.f90 program p type t integer :: a character(:), allocatable :: c end type type(t) :: x x = t(a=1) ; print *, x%a, x%c x = t(a=2, c=null()) ; print *, x%a, x%c x = t(c=null(), a=3) ; print *, x%a, x%c x = t(a=4, c='c4') ; print *, x%a, x%c x = t(a=5) ; print *, x%a, x%c x = t(6, 'c6') ; print *, x%a, x%c x = t(c='c7', a=7) ; print *, x%a, x%c x = t(c=null(), a=8) ; print *, x%a, x%c x = t(9, c='c9') ; print *, x%a, x%c x = t(10, null()) ; print *, x%a, x%c x = t(11, 'c11') ; print *, x%a, x%c x = t(12) ; print *, x%a, x%c end $ gfortran-7-20161204 -O2 zzp.f90 $ a.out 1 2 3 4 c4 5 6 c6 7 c7 8 9 c9 10 11 c11 12 Compiling with -O0 or -Og : $ gfortran-7-20161204 -g -O0 -Wall -fcheck=all zzp.f90 $ a.out 1 2 Program received signal SIGSEGV: Segmentation fault - invalid memory reference. Backtrace for this error: #0 0x2ad486c4711f in ??? #1 0x2ad486ca38ee in ??? #2 0x410f1a in list_formatted_write_scalar at ../../../libgfortran/io/write.c:1887 #3 0x4023d7 in p at .../zzp.f90:9 #4 0x402e53 in main at .../zzp.f90:19 Segmentation fault