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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: NEW TOPIC:  Consistency of execution environment
Message-ID: <3699@lanl.gov>
Date: 16 Sep 88 20:17:44 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <2979@hubcap.UUCP>, by fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson):
> 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.

The standard doesn't require this.  It only requires that the Re,Im
parts should _appear_ to be interleaved with respect to the EQUIVALENCE
statement.  Admittedly, this is not much help since it would require
quite an amount of compiler work to simulate interleaving on data
that really isn't.

J. Giles