Hello,

I may have discovered a problem in the way gfortran optimizes 
functions/subroutines when c interoperability (and specifically the c_loc() 
intrinsic) are used.

The attached code illustrates the issue.  A variable is allocated and a pointer 
is to the allocated memory is sent to C and stored in global memory.  Next the 
memory is initialized in the same routine that it was allocated.  Finally, in a 
different routine the memory pointer is retrieved from c and the value stored 
in memory is printed.  With optimization -O3 the initialization is optimized 
out.  With optimization -O0 the initialization occurs and the code runs 
correctly.

The typical output and sequence of steps to run the code is given below.

I would greatly appreciate any analysis of this issue.  Is it a bug?  Is my 
code non-compliant in some way? etc.

Thanks,  Ryan

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vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:/vagrant$ cd skeleton/

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:/vagrant/skeleton$ make
gfortran -m32 -O3 -g -Wall -pedantic  -c skeleton-f.F90
gcc -m32 -O3 -g -Wall -ansi -pedantic  -c skeleton-c.c
gfortran -m32 -O3 -g -Wall skeleton*.o  -o skeleton

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:/vagrant/skeleton$ ./skeleton
  -- in storePtr: pointer address --> 0x95caba0 <-- value --> -144534256
  -- just a print statement  --> nothing
  -- in getPtr:   pointer address --> 0x95caba0 <-- value --> -144534256
  -- value of 'val2' variable -->   -144534256

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:/vagrant/skeleton$ make clean
rm -f skeleton skeleton*.o *.mod

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:/vagrant/skeleton$ make OPT=-O0
gfortran -m32 -O0 -g -Wall -pedantic  -c skeleton-f.F90
gcc -m32 -O0 -g -Wall -ansi -pedantic  -c skeleton-c.c
gfortran -m32 -O0 -g -Wall skeleton*.o  -o skeleton

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:/vagrant/skeleton$ ./skeleton
  -- in storePtr: pointer address --> 0x8d09ba0 <-- value --> -143915760
  -- just a print statement  --> nothing
  -- in getPtr:   pointer address --> 0x8d09ba0 <-- value --> 21
  -- value of 'val2' variable -->           21