Mixing C and gfortran ...

[Tobias Schlüter]

klra67@freenet.de wrote:
>>One thing that might change if someone is willing to do the work, is that
>>we could add a field to the array descriptors of CHARACTER arrays which
>>indicates the length.  This would remove the need to pass a separate hidden
>>length argument to functions which takes character arguments.
> 
> I'm far from being an expert, but this seems a small advantage for a severe 
> change: It makes char array descriptors the odd-man-out of array descriptors.

You're looking only at half of the matter: the way it is currently, the
calling convention for character arrays is the odd-man-out WRT the other array
types (and there are lots of exception for CHARACTERS anyway), so it's not so
clear what is better.  But I agree that it's not obviously "better".

- Tobi