Garbage in VS2008/VS2010 watch window for allocated scalar substrings

[David_Kinniburgh]

[bash]integer :: k
character(:), allocatable :: str

k = 15
str = "Now is the time to go the party"
print *, "text = ", str(1:k)
[/bash]

That works and prints as expected, but I get garbage in the Watch window when I attempt to look at substrings like str(1:k) or str(1:15).
str(:) and str(1:) work fine.
Is this a known bug?

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[Wendy_Doerner__Intel]

David,

I have reproduced the bug you are seeing with allocatable arrays and have reported it to engineering as: DPD200177119. I will update when we have a compiler that resolves it or if it was already a known problem.

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Wendy

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[Wendy_Doerner__Intel]

Found out from engineering this is a known problem which will be fixed in the next major release of our compiler due out next year.

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Wendy

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[SergeyKostrov]

Is it an MBCS / UNICODE related problem?

[Wendy_Doerner__Intel]

No just related to how the strings where specified.

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Wendy

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[David_Kinniburgh]

This does not appear to have been fixed in 2013.0.089.

[Wendy_Doerner__Intel]

Engineering has confirmed this is fixed only in Microsoft VS 2012 in the first relase of the 13.0 compiler just released. Will update this thread when it isavailable in 2008 and 2010 in a future update. Wendy Doerner Intel Developer Support