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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Pseudo-FORTRAN -- f2c for the Macintosh
Summary: integer*2 is non-standard
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.182915.486@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 2 Jun 91 18:29:15 GMT
References: <1991May30.040829.8696@eplrx7.uucp> <1017@DIALix.oz.au> <1991Jun1.171914.802@weyrich.UUCP>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1991Jun1.171914.802@weyrich.UUCP> orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>>The biggest problem I encountered is the way the Mac stores
>>integers, which causes major problems with arrays of different cell sizes
>>being EQUIVALENCED.
>>
>>eg: INTEGER*2 little(2)
>>    INTEGER*4 big
>>     EQUIVALENCE (little,big)
>>    little(1) = 10
>>    little(2) = 99

The usage INTEGER*n is non-standard.  As Orville goes on to say, asking
a translator to support non-standard usage is a bit much.


-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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