How to pass allocatable arrays to subroutines in Fortran

Question

The following code is returning a Segmentation Fault because the allocatable array I am trying to pass is not being properly recognized (size returns 1, when it should be 3). In this page (http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=170599) a similar example seems to indicate that it should work fine in F95; my code file has a .F90 extension, but I tried changing it to F95, and I am using gfortran to compile.

My guess is that the problem should be in the way I am passing the allocatable array to the subroutine; What am I doing wrong?

!%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%!
 PROGRAM test
!%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%!
 IMPLICIT NONE
 DOUBLE PRECISION,ALLOCATABLE :: Array(:,:)
 INTEGER                      :: iii,jjj

 ALLOCATE(Array(3,3))
 DO iii=1,3
 DO jjj=1,3
    Array(iii,jjj)=iii+jjj
    PRINT*,Array(iii,jjj)
 ENDDO
 ENDDO
 CALL Subtest(Array)

 END PROGRAM
!%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%!
 SUBROUTINE Subtest(Array)
 DOUBLE PRECISION,ALLOCATABLE,INTENT(IN) :: Array(:,:)
 INTEGER                                 :: iii,jjj

 PRINT*,SIZE(Array,1),SIZE(Array,2)
 DO iii=1,SIZE(Array,1)
 DO jjj=1,SIZE(Array,2)
    PRINT*,Array(iii,jjj)
 ENDDO
 ENDDO

 END SUBROUTINE
!%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%!

Answer 1

If a procedure has a dummy argument that is an allocatable, then an explicit interface is required in any calling scope.

(There are numerous things that require an explicit interface, an allocatable dummy is but one.)

You can provide that explicit interface yourself by putting an interface block for your subroutine inside the main program. An alternative and far, far, far better option is to put the subroutine inside a module and then USE that module in the main program - the explicit interface is then automatically created. There is an example of this on the eng-tips site that you provided a link to - see the post by xwb.

Note that it only makes sense for a dummy argument to have the allocatable attribute if you are going to do something related to its allocation status - query its status, reallocate it, deallocate it, etc.