[munchler]

Fortran doesn’t even have dynamic memory allocation, so it’s inherently safe.

[julian_t]

It actually has had this since Fortran-90, and there's even a 'pointer' keyword.

[ok123456]

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/xffbg/121.141?topic=attributes-a...

No pointer direct arithmetic, though. If you allocate the memory via allocate, you can inquire if it's been deallocated.