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From: ciemo@bananapc.SGI.COM (Dave Ciemiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Wanted: info on the maximum lengths of identifiers in various FORTRANs
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Date: 9 Mar 89 18:03:51 GMT
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The FORTRAN 77 standard guarantees identifiers (variable names,
function/subroutine names, parameter names) to be unique in the first
6 characters.  However, most FORTRAN implementations seem to guarantee
uniqueness for greater than 6 characters.  For instance, VMS FORTRAN
and MIPS FORTRAN (used on the IRIS-4D) guarantee uniqueness to 32 characters.

I am interested in knowing the implementation limits for identifiers
for various FORTRAN compilers, especially those running on super computers.

If desired, I will post results to comp.lang.fortran.  Please reply
to me directly.  Best paths are ciemo@sgi.com or {decwrl,sun,ucbvax}!sgi!ciemo.

Thanks!!

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