Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ll-xn!ames!ptsfa!well!rchrd From: rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: ALLOCATABLE, ARRAY :: A(:) Message-ID: <3515@well.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 12:47:00 EDT Article-I.D.: well.3515 Posted: Wed Jul 8 12:47:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 17:07:57 EDT References: <1215@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <105@anumb.UUCP> Reply-To: rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 24 Xref: mnetor comp.lang.fortran:155 comp.lang.pascal:197 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. -- ...Richard Friedman [rchrd] uucp: {ucbvax,lll-lcc,ptsfa,hplabs}!well!rchrd - or - rchrd@well.uucp