fortran and c pointers in gcc 2.95.2

Toon Moene toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl
Wed Sep 13 12:40:00 GMT 2000


Maciej Z. Pindera wrote:

> I wrote:

[ Please show us the source, so that we can say something intelligent
  about your problem  ... ]

> Oops.  It was very late at night, and it wasn't my code.  While I'm aware
> that fortran does not use pointers and passes arguments by reference, I
> thought that this particular code used LOC (or similar) intrinsics that
> return INTEGER*8 pointer-like constructs on DEC_Alphas.  In the event it
> turned out that the code did not do this; the error was not compiler but code
> generated.

Ha !  This shows exactly why it is important to sent an example code
that behaves problematic in the way mentioned:  I didn't even recall the
ancient LOC-on-64-bit-target problems anymore ...

Cheers,

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