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From: "Joost" <jv...@cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: ISO_C_BINDING / C interop question
Date: 16 Feb 2006 23:31:19 -0800
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Richard E Maine wrote:
> Richard E Maine <nos...@see.signature> wrote:
>
> > hmm. Apparently you
> > can't apply c_loc to a string. That seems to me like an oversight.
> > Strings are special-cased specifically so that you can pass them to C
> > functions without copying them to arrays of char. But I don't see a
> > similar special case for c_loc.
>
> I just emailed the J3 list suggesting that the inability to do C_LOC on
> a string is an oversight that ought to be fixed (at least in f2008, and
> arguably that it might even be an obvious and simple enough oversight to
> merit an f2003 corrgendum item, though I don't at all know whether that
> will fly).

I hope this makes it as a F2003 corrigendum...

Many thanks,

Joost