To: J3 07-259 From: Jim Xia Subject: Interpretation: Bounds remapped pointer assignment and ASSOCIATED Date: 2007 July 20 NUMBER: F03/0095 TITLE: Bounds remapped pointer assignment and ASSOCIATED KEYWORDS: pointer assignment, bounds-remapping, ASSOCIATED DEFECT TYPE: Error STATUS: Erratum QUESTION: Case (v) of intrinsic inquiry function ASSOCIATED [305:5-9] says If TARGET is present and is an array target, the result is true if the target associated with POINTER and TARGET have the same shape, are neither of size zero nor arrays whose elements are zero-sized storage sequences, and occupy the same storage units in array element order. Otherwise, the result is false. If POINTER is disassociated, the result is false. This will cause the intrinsic to return false if the POINTER is pointer assigned to the TARGET with bounds-remapping (POINTER and TARGET can be of different ranks). The same issue also exists for case (vii). Is the POINTER associated with the TARGET if the POINTER is pointer assigned to the TARGET with bounds-remapping? ANSWER: Yes, it is intended that POINTER and TARGET are associated after pointer assignment using bounds-remapping. There is no need to require POINTER and TARGET to be the same shape in ASSOCIATED. An edit is provided to correct this oversight. EDITS to 04-007: [305:6] Delete "have the same shape," [305:16-17] Delete "have the same shape," SUBMITTED BY: Jim Xia HISTORY: m181 Submitted