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Re: Official Fortran standards
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- To: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, mzpnet at directvinternet dot com, reg at dwf dot com
- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 23:47:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: Official Fortran standards
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <20020622214258.9F01CF2D6D@nile.gnat.com>
Robert Dewar wrote:
> > IOW, the DO-variable is incremented before the decision whther the loop
> > should be terminated is taking.
>
> Interesting, does this mean that a Fortran DO loop whose upper bound is
> the largest integer has undefined semantics?
Wouldn't surprise me. Note that the concept of "largest integer" is
outside the realm of Fortran Standards (whether 66, 77, 90, 95 or the
upcoming F2K).
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