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Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
From: glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:15:32 -0800
Local: Mon, Apr 9 2007 7:15 pm
Subject: Re: Transfer and variables that don't use all their storage space.
Richard Maine wrote: (snip) > "All these years" isn't very many for allocatable components, which are Some of the subtleties should be similar to those for pointers. > where I can most readily see a related problem. Wouldn't surprise me if > there are others, but that's one I think I can see concretely. There's > no way that whoever wrote the transfer description for f90 could have > carefully considered how it worked with allocatable components, the > details of which weren't done til a decade later. Not all, I agree, but if the effect can be seen for pointer components it shouldn't be attributed to allocatable components. > I was there during all > of the work on allocatable components, and I don't recall any such topic -- glen > relating to transfer ever having been broached. I do recall that > allocatable components had lots and lots of subtleties that took a long > time to work out, both in the standard and in implementations. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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