Re: g77 character strings are not terminated?

[Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>]

mmcohen@ranx.ucsc.edu wrote:
> In every other f77 system I've used if one creates
> a string like 'a b c', the result is null terminated.
> With g77 this seems not to be the case, so it's impossible
> to find the end of a string, unless one explicitly
> gives the string as 'a b c\0'. However I've got
> a zillion lines of code that expect a null.
> Is this really what is intended in g77?
Yes.

> Is there a compiler flag to set to get null terminated
> strings?
No, unfortunately not.

> Or is this a bug to be rectified?
Not in our plan.  You are the first person in the almost 8 years that 
g77 is in existence to complain about this.

Fortran character variables have a length associated with them (use 
len(str) to get at it).  They do not need a trailing 0 to determine 
their "end".  So the compiler doesn't supply it.

Hope this helps,

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