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From: pa@appmag.com (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: What's the right way to get a block data from a library?
Keywords: fortran, block data, library search
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.182822.11470@appmag.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 18:28:22 GMT
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Organization: R&D, Applied Magnetics, Goleta, CA
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ANSI Fortran 77 declines  to  specify  "the  mechanism  by  which
programs  are  transformed  for use on a data processing system."
The interaction  between the compiler and loader is pretty much a
wildcard.

The block-data-in-a-library snag was discussed in this group before.
As I remember it,
  -most implementations will let you do it with some scheme or other;
  -no single method works on all implementations.

If I need portably initialized data, I keep  the  block  data  in
*source* form and INCLUDE it exactly once, outside of all program
units.  INCLUDE is not ANSI but,  as  discussed  earlier,  it  is
essentially portable.

  --Pierre Asselin, R&D, Applied Magnetics Corp.  I speak for me.
    3003jalp@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu     --appmag.com doesn't work yet.