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From: gsh7w@astsun1.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: CHARACTER EQUIVALENCE (Was Re: fortran to C converter)
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Date: 21 Apr 89 14:05:30 GMT
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#In article <50500123@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
#>   In some sicko implementations, and in pure ANSI F77 itself, you
#>have to have a separate common block for characters (UGH!).

In article <67044@pyramid.pyramid.com>  (Mike Lipsie) writes:
#If you allow equivalence
#between CHARACTER and non-CHARACTER variables, you automatically have
#non-portable code.
#

Is it just me or does this answer pertain to a different question? I
don't see what EQUIVALENCE has to do with seperate common blocks.

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