Variable Length Arrays (VLA) proposal

[Chris January]

On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 09:53 +0100, Chris January wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 08:17 +0000, Agovic, Sanimir wrote:
> > Breakpoint 1, test () at vla.f90:4
> > 4           ALLOCATE(vla (3, 4, 5))
> > $1 = <not allocated>
> > type = integer(kind=4), ALLOCATABLE (0:1,0:1,0:1)
> > 5           ALLOCATE(character(len=2) :: str)
> > $2 = (( ( 0, 0) ( 0, 0) ) ( ( 0, 0) ( 0, 0) ) )
> 
> I have had reports this happens with the Fedora version of gfortran
> 4.7.2 (but not with the Debian version, IIRC) - I will look into it.

GDB 7.2 does not support DWARF 4 (specifically DW_FORM_exprloc in this
case) and that is the cause of this problem.

Chris