Committed as obvious. The patch checks for a NULL pointer dereference. In this case, it pointers to an error in the Fortran code, and so gfortran now issues an informative error message. 2019-09-15 Steven G. Kargl PR fortran/91727 * resolve.c (conformable_arrays): If array-spec is NULL, then allocate-object is a scalar. a conformability check only occurs for an array source-expr. 2019-09-15 Steven G. Kargl PR fortran/91727 * gfortran.dg/pr91727.f90: New test. -- Steve