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From: "J.L.Schonfelder" <j.l.schonfelder@liverpool.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Pointers to allocatable variables
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I have a query re f2003. It would appear from the constraints in section 5. 
that ALLOCATABLE and POINTER attributes are forbidden for the same object. 
This rules out having a pointer to a target that is a CHARACTER of 
allocatable length, e.g.

CHARACTER(:),ALLOCATABLE,POINTER:: pch

is illegal.
Is this true and if so why?
If it is not true, how do I declare a pointer to an allocatable length 
character?

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