Hello world, I have committed the fix for the second part (and original test case) of PR 83224 as obvious after regression-testing as r255331. Regards Thomas 2017-12-01 Thomas Koenig PR fortran/83224 * frontend-passes.c (create_var): Also handle character arrays, handling deferred lenghts. 2017-12-01 Thomas Koenig PR fortran/83224 * gfortran.dg/dependency_51.f90: New test.