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From: fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: NEW TOPIC:  Consistency of execution environment
Message-ID: <2979@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 12:02:12 GMT
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From article <995@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, by fouts@lemming.nas.nasa.gov.nas.nasa.gov (Marty Fouts):
> Does the Fortran Standard require the consistency of in memory
> representation of data items?  


I recently asked this about the storage in 8x for COMPLEX.  Note that
the hanging on of equivalencing requires that the Re,Im be interleaved.
This is certainly a disaster for certain types of processors.

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Steve Stevenson                            fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
(aka D. E. Stevenson),                     fpst@prism.clemson.csnet
Department of Computer Science,            comp.parallel
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell