Hi all, here is an obvious patch which I will commit later today together with the original test case (regtesting was successful). Cheers, Janus 2010-06-22 Janus Weil PR fortran/44616 * resolve.c (resolve_fl_derived): Avoid checking for abstract on class containers. 2010-06-22 Janus Weil PR fortran/44616 * gfortran.dg/abstract_type_8.f03: New.