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From: Gumley_LE@cc.curtin.edu.au (Liam Gumley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: EQUIVALENCE or STRUCTURE/RECORD ?
Message-ID: <6683.278c85d2@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 10 Jan 91 07:18:42 GMT
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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A VAX/VMS Fortran-77 question follows....

What I am trying to do is this....

Main program

	byte 		buffer(100)

Subroutine (has 'buffer' passed to it)

	byte 		buffer(100)
	integer*4	data(20)
	equivalence	( buffer(3), data(1) )

The VAX compiler gives an error at the equivalence line.  Now I know I could
do the equivalence in the main program and pass 'data' to the subprogram,
but I would like to do it in the subroutine if I can.  Can I do this using
structure and record statements, or some other way?

Cheers,
Liam.

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#Liam E. Gumley, Department of Applied Physics, Curtin University of Technology#
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