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From: ekman@wdl30.wdl.loral.com (Donald Ekman)
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Subject: Re: Order of variables in EQUIVALENCE statement
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Date: 18 Jun 91 19:53:15 GMT
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In article <99850@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> lindner@ncis.llnl.gov (Curt Lindner) writes:
>I've been in the the process of converting some code using 'f77cvt' on 
>a SUN Sparcstation. 
>
>The conversion is swapping the variables in the equivalence statements,
>which it shouldn't do, as far as I can tell. 
>
>Does this have an adverse affect on the results of the code, i.e. does the
>first variable take on the value of the second, or vice versa??
>
Since the equivalence statement simply causes each of the variable names to
reference the same storage location, the order is irrelevant, I believe.

Don


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Donald E. Ekman, Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, CA  ekman@wdl30.wdl.loral.com