Q: Passing character string lengths with 64-bit addressing

[Walter Spector]

FX wrote:
> The character length variables you mention are always (for gfortran)
> 32-bit integer signed variables, so if you need to address them in
> gfortran, you can use either integer(kind=4) or, in C99, int32_t
> (found in header inttypes.h).

Thanks!  (Actually, I am using C++.  So using the C99 inttypes.h stuff
may not be available on all platforms.)

This should be mentioned in the gfortran documentation somewhere.

> To my knowledge, there is no plan today to change the current
> situation. Personally,  I don't think having 64-bit string lengths is
> very useful.

At this time, I simply need to know how it works for some code
porting.  Someone else can ask for the feature.  (And take the
arrows... :)

W.