https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100860
Bug ID: 100860 Summary: class(*) type is (character(*)) produces a segmentation fault when run Product: gcc Version: 11.1.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: fortran Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: thomas.robinson at noaa dot gov Target Milestone: --- When a string is passed as an argument to a subroutine where the argument is `class(*)`, there is a seg fault when the type is selected. Other types seem to be working. Previous versions of gfortran have no problem compiling and running this simple program. I think the code is correct. It seems to be gcc 11 that has an issue. Here is some test code: module ctest contains subroutine sub (carg, slen) class(*), intent (in) :: carg integer, optional, intent (in) :: slen select type (carg) type is (character(*)) if (.not.present(slen)) then write (6,*) "This is an error dealing with a string" else write (6,*) "string length is ",slen write (6,*) "String is ",carg(1:slen) endif type is (integer) write (6,*) "Integer type is ", carg type is (real) write (6,*) "Real type is ", carg class default write (6,*) "Not the right type" end select end subroutine sub end module ctest program test use ctest character (len=10) :: c10 character (len=:), allocatable :: sall integer :: i=100 real :: r = 999.9 logical :: l = .true. call sub (r) call sub (i) call sub (l) c10="12345" allocate(character (len=i) :: sall) sall = "87654321" ! write (6,*) "c10=",trim(c10),"::LEN=",len_trim(c10) ! call sub(trim(c10), len_trim(c10)) write (6,*) "sall=",trim(sall),"::LEN=",len_trim(sall) call sub(trim(sall),len_trim(sall)) end program test Here is the output Real type is 999.900024 Integer type is 100 Not the right type sall=87654321::LEN= 8 Program received signal SIGSEGV: Segmentation fault - invalid memory reference. I tried with heap and stack strings, and both fail (you can see I have the first one commented out). Please let me know if there's any more information you need.