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From: ddh@hare.cdc.com (Dan Horsfall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 77 Intrinsic Functions
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Date: 9 Oct 90 14:32:56 GMT
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In article <6724.27106469@ccvax.ucd.ie> beamishd@ccvax.ucd.ie writes:
> I am looking for a list of ...  bit manipulation functions.
> 	     Thanks
> 
> Norman Beamish                            
> Dublin Ireland

You won't find such a thing.  FORTRAN deals with word-oriented units,
not bits; bits are (obviously, I hope) machine dependent.  Now, most
compiler writers provide intrinsic functions of some type, or even
source language constructs for manipulating bits, but ANSI 77 does not 
because it _can_ not.

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