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Re: f771 assertion failure
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: f771 assertion failure
- From: Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>
- Date: 28 Sep 1997 12:41:27 +0100
- Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK
- References: <199709280711.AAA26493@dot.cygnus.com>
>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Henderson <rth@dot.cygnus.com> writes:
Richard> Since Fortran passes by reference (always?),
Fortran may pass by reference or by value/return (copy-in-copy-out or
whatever). G77 takes advantage of this using JFC's alias code. I'd
guess the routine in question violates the Fortran rules on aliasing
(`storage association') apart from getting the types wrong.