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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 8x:  pointers and optimization
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Date: 27 Jun 89 23:35:02 GMT
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From article <MCCALPIN.89Jun27112226@masig1.ocean.fsu.edu>, by mccalpin@masig1.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin):
> [...] 
> On the other hand, IDENTIFY clearly has the same sort of aliasing
> problems as POINTER.  I am not sure about ALIAS, but I seem to recall
> that it was even more limited....

ALIAS and IDENTIFY are related.  IDENTIFY does not have the _same_ sort
of aliasing problems as pointer.  This is because POINTERs can be reassigned
during a subroutine call.  You can't reIDENTIFY something in a subroutine
call though.  See my previous posting.