g77 and allocated arrays

[Toon Moene]

Lars Segerlund wrote:

>  Is there any way of using dynamically allocated arrays in g77 ? I have 
> been checking out automatic arrays but havent got the grip on them yet, 
> and according to the doc's the 'f90 extensions' for allocating storage 
> is not supported.

Fortran 90's ALLOCATE and DEALLOCATE is not supported by g77.  g77 does 
do automatic arrays.

An automatic array is an array (in a subprogram) that gets its size from 
a dummy argument of the subprogram, e.g.:

       SUBROUTINE SUB(A,N)
       DIMENSION A(N), B(N)
       ...
       END

Here A is a normal, dummy argument array, whereas B is an automatic 
array that is allocated everytime control enters the subroutine SUB.

Hope this helps,

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