I defined a derived type and encountered some problems with memory deallocation although I had written the final procedure. The code is as follows
module ModuleCoordinate
implicit none
type :: TCoordinate
real(8),dimension(:),pointer :: Coordinate => NULL()
contains
procedure :: TCoordinateAssignment
generic,public :: Assignment(=) => TCoordinateAssignment
final :: TCoordinateDel
end type TCoordinate
interface TCoordinate
module procedure :: TCoordinateInit
end interface TCoordinate
contains
subroutine TCoordinateDel(self)
type(TCoordinate),intent(inout) :: self
if(associated(self%Coordinate))deallocate(self%Coordinate)
end subroutine TCoordinateDel
subroutine TCoordinateAssignment(O1,O2)
class(TCoordinate),intent(out) :: O1
type(TCoordinate),intent(in) :: O2
if(associated(O2%Coordinate))allocate(O1%Coordinate,source=O2%Coordinate)
end subroutine TCoordinateAssignment
type(TCoordinate) function TCoordinateInit(IVal1,IVal2) result(self)
real(8),intent(in) :: IVal1,IVal2
allocate(self%Coordinate(2))
self%Coordinate=(/IVal1,IVal2/)
end function TCoordinateInit
end module ModuleCoordinate
The test code is as follows
program test
implicit none
integer(4),parameter :: NLoop=40000
integer(4) :: i
do i=1,NLoop
call TestMemory1()
call TestMemory2()
end do
pause
end program test
subroutine TestMemory1()
use ModuleCoordinate
implicit none
integer(4),parameter :: DN=10
integer(4) :: i
type(TCoordinate),dimension(DN) :: a
do i=1,DN
a(i)=TCoordinate(1.0_8,1.0_8)
end do
end subroutine TestMemory1
subroutine TestMemory2()
use ModuleCoordinate
implicit none
type(TCoordinate) :: b1,b2,b3,b4,b5,b6,b7,b8,b9,b10
b1=TCoordinate(1.0_8,1.0_8)
b2=TCoordinate(1.0_8,1.0_8)
b3=TCoordinate(1.0_8,1.0_8)
b4=TCoordinate(1.0_8,1.0_8)
b5=TCoordinate(1.0_8,1.0_8)
b6=TCoordinate(1.0_8,1.0_8)
b7=TCoordinate(1.0_8,1.0_8)
b8=TCoordinate(1.0_8,1.0_8)
b9=TCoordinate(1.0_8,1.0_8)
b10=TCoordinate(1.0_8,1.0_8)
end subroutine TestMemory2
It turns out that the subroutine TestMemory2
is OK while TestMemory1
is not, which means that when an array of this derived type is declared the final procedure doesn't work and the memory leaks.
However, if I delete the => NULL()
on the right of the Coordinate
in the definition of this derived type, both subroutines seem to work well.
What makes the difference when the pointer Coordinate
is being deallocated?
The complier is ifort_2013_sp1.3.174 if it matters.
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