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From: john@ghostwheel.unm.edu (John Prentice)
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Subject: Re: Dynamic Memory Management in Fortran
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Date: 16 Nov 90 00:42:06 GMT
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This subject has been pretty well hashed out, but I wanted to add one thing
that I didn't see mentioned.  Some compilers (notably the Sun and Cray 
Fortran compilers) have implemented pointers and also have Fortran callable
links to malloc to allocate a block of memory and return the pointer
address.  For such compilers, dynamic memory allocation is truly trivial.

John Prentice
john@unmfys.unm.edu