4.6.6 Extended ALLOCATABLE Attribute

Fortran 2003 extends the data entities allowed for the ALLOCATABLE attribute. Previously this attribute was limited to locally stored array variables. It is now allowed with:

• array components of structures

• dummy arrays

• array function results

Allocatable entities remain forbidden in all places where they may be storage-associated: COMMON blocks and EQUIVALENCE statements. Allocatable array components may appear in SEQUENCE types, but objects of such types are then prohibited from COMMON and EQUIVALENCE.