! { dg-do run } ! PR 27662. Don't zero the first stride to indicate a temporary. It ! may be used later. program pr27662 implicit none real(kind=kind(1.0d0)), dimension (2, 2):: x, y, z; integer i, j x(1,1) = 1.d0 x(2,1) = 0.d0 x(1,2) = 0.d0 x(2,2) = 1.d0 z = matmul (x, transpose (test ())) do i = 1, size (x, 1) do j = 1, size (x, 2) if (x (i, j) .ne. z (i, j)) call abort () end do end do contains function test () result (res) real(kind=kind(1.0d0)), dimension(2,2) :: res res(1,1) = 1.d0 res(2,1) = 0.d0 res(1,2) = 0.d0 res(2,2) = 1.d0 end function end