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From: rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman)
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Subject: Re: ALLOCATABLE, ARRAY :: A(:)
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Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 12:47:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 12:47:00 1987
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In article <3164@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> walton@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Steve Walton) writes:
>
>(Actually, if anyone knows of a Fortran-8x compiler, I'd love to get a
>copy.) 
>

Many of the compilers on supercomputers are now compiling a 
subset of 8x.  The compiler on the ALLIANT FX/8 now accepts
many of the array syntax constructs in 8x.  More and more
of these things are turning up.  One wishes the standard
would get finalized so that we dont wind up with a mess of
half-standard compilers.
  
About the issue of ALLOCATE arrays, I suspect that nothing
will be done to catch use of an ALLOCATE array as an
argument to a subprogram.  I dont see how the compiler can
detect it unless it is a global compiler.  It just wont work.
Its very hard to implement dynamic arrays in FORTRAN.


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