workaround for legacy code using fortran integer pointers

[Steven Bosscher]

Hans Horn wrote:

>yup. That's it.
>Not quite Cray pointers, but something related (supposedly only a few
>compiler vendor have added this extension, such as IBM, Sun, ...).
>It goes like this : POINTER(ip, iarray(*))
>
>In the g77 docs it says that adding this feature is pretty high on the
>priority list.
>
That is a documentation bug then. Last time I asked, this was said to be 
a very difficult project that requires lots of invasive changes. Not the 
kind of stuff you would typically do on a front end that is in sort of a 
"maintenance only" state. It probably used to be a much requested 
feature, but I wouldn't count on this being implemented any time soon, 
if at all.

>If there are already some prelim implementations out there, I wouldn't mind
>serving as a guinea pig.
>  
>
I have Googled for it in the past -- doesn't seen to be any 
implementation of it anywhere.

Gr.
Steven