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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: RE:  An array by any other name. . .
Message-ID: <3658@lanl.gov>
Date: 16 Sep 88 02:13:59 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <998@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, by fouts@lemming.nas.nasa.gov.nas.nasa.gov (Marty Fouts):
> No it doesn't.  The Civic compiler under CTSS supports a fairly
> hackneyed dynamic/memory pointer construct.  CFT (at least through CFT
> 1.15) and CFT77 -- which are "Cray Fortran" -- don't.

I've used CFT daily for the last 6 years.  I used to be the site support
for the CFT compiler at Los Alamos.  CFT version 1.08 had pointers in it.
I know it did because I had to fix a bug relating to pointers in that
version.  All the versions of CFT since then have had pointers.  The
CFT reference manual claims that pointers were introduced in April 1980.
I have the manual right here on my desk!  I don't know where you got
your information, but mine comes right from the documentation.  (Not
to mention the fact that I use pointers _all_ the time, so I know
there has been no change.)

J. Giles
Los Alamos