From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 20:57:17 -0500, Gary Scott wrote:   
      
   > On 10/16/2024 7:51 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> It’s annoying to find that if you try to DEALLOCATE an ALLOCATABLE   
   >> variable that has not been ALLOCATEd (or that has already been   
   >> DEALLOCATEd), this is an error.   
   >>   
   > The way these things are handled in Fortran is to add a "stat="   
   > specifier.   
      
   But I don’t want to catch errors as a result of invalid, non-NULL pointers   
   -- let that be trapped as a runtime error as usual. I just want a free of   
   NULL to be a harmless no-op.   
      
   The trouble with “stat=” is like “ON ERROR GOTO” in BASIC of old: you   
   either catch everything or nothing, you cannot be selective in the   
   exceptions you catch.   
      
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