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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 8x, COMMON, SAVE, minus zer
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Date: 23 Mar 88 13:53:00 GMT
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>I have not seen any Fortran implementations which treat COMMON blocks as
>automatic or stack variables.  COMMON blocks behave as if they were SAVEd
>in all Fortran environments I've seen.  Furthermore, one of the most

Absoft Fortran for the 68000. This product is abnormal in many ways,
among them the above and its corollary: data statements produce code.
A series of data statements initializing 1000 character array elements
generates 7000 bytes of code! Common blocks are not saved by default,
except in the main program.