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From: edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Eddie Wyatt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C strings
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Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 17:28:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 17:28:30 1987
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In article <1299@cullvax.UUCP>, drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
> edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
> >    In Fortrash, Integers are actually longs (if you pass pointers to
> > integers instead of pointers to longs and have it still work, it is because
> > sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) on the  machine you are working on)
> 
> I'm somewhat bothered that none of you are specifying which
> implementations of the two languages you are discussing.  When you want
> to interface two different language systems, you have to figure out
> how both of them map the language structures to machine code, and
> figure out the right hacks to get the information across.  In any
> case, the particular solution will only be good for the two language
> implementations involved.
> 
> Dale
> -- 
> Dale Worley	Cullinet Software		ARPA: cullvax!drw@eddie.mit.edu
> UUCP: ...!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!cullvax!drw
> If you light a match, how much mass does it convert into energy?

   F77 on Berkley Unix OS.  Its been a while since I've played with 
stuff like that.  Some vendor's language manual with have the details
of implementation.

-- 
					Eddie Wyatt

e-mail: edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu

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