kiranchandramohan wrote: For threadprivate, that syntax is accepted. https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/deb429e5b0003b4951b6387fe6d0cb0ea4181f8a/flang/test/Lower/OpenMP/FIR/threadprivate-commonblock.f90#L13 https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/70394