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Fortran pointers, and aliasing

In C, the restrict keyword allows a programmer to make a promise to the compiler, saying approximately “I promise that this pointer doesn’t overlap with memory referred to by other pointers that are passed to this function”. That’s the default state in Fortran, for assumed-shape arrays, for example. But what bout when actually using pointers in Fortran? If the programmer knows that there is no aliasing, is there a way to communicate that to the compiler? Or is it unnecessary, since only targets …