else
gfc_add_block_to_block (&post, &se.post);
- /* Special case when string in expr3 is zero. */
+ /* Special case when string in expr3 is scalar and has length zero. */
if (code->expr3->ts.type == BT_CHARACTER
+ && code->expr3->rank == 0
&& integer_zerop (se.string_length))
{
gfc_init_se (&se, NULL);
--- /dev/null
+! { dg-do run }
+!
+! PR fortran/83865
+!
+! Test ALLOCATE with SOURCE= of deferred length character, where
+! the source-expression is an array of character with length 0.
+
+program p
+ implicit none
+ character(:), allocatable :: z(:)
+ character(1) :: cc(4) = ""
+ allocate (z, source=[''])
+ if (len (z) /= 0 .or. size (z) /= 1) stop 1
+ deallocate (z)
+ allocate (z, source=['',''])
+ if (len (z) /= 0 .or. size (z) /= 2) stop 2
+ deallocate (z)
+ allocate (z, source=[ character(0) :: 'a','b','c'])
+ if (len (z) /= 0 .or. size (z) /= 3) stop 3
+ deallocate (z)
+ allocate (z, source=[ character(0) :: cc ])
+ if (len (z) /= 0 .or. size (z) /= 4) stop 4
+ deallocate (z)
+ associate (x => f())
+ if (len (x) /= 0 .or. size (x) /= 1) stop 5
+ if (x(1) /= '') stop 6
+ end associate
+contains
+ function f() result(z)
+ character(:), allocatable :: z(:)
+ allocate (z, source=[''])
+ end function f
+end