User and Reference Guide for the Intel® Fortran Compiler 14.0
The ATTRIBUTES directive option ALLOCATABLE is provided for compatibility with older programs. It lets you delay allocation of storage for a particular declared entity until some point at run time when you explicitly call a routine that dynamically allocates storage for the entity.
!DIR$ ATTRIBUTES ALLOCATABLE :: entity
entity |
Is the name of the entity that should have allocation delayed. |
The recommended method for dynamically allocating storage is to use the ALLOCATABLE statement or attribute.