Xref: utzoo comp.lang.fortran:829 comp.lang.c:10973 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!mordor!joyce!sri-unix!garth!smryan From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Should I convert FORTRAN code to C? Message-ID: <830@garth.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 88 20:15:56 GMT References: <2742@utastro.UUCP> <20008@beta.UUCP> <224@raunvis.UUCP> <750@garth.UUCP> <528@philmds.UUCP> <335@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA Lines: 8 >>>some Fortran programmers equivalence different typed arrays In Fortranish, "equivalence" is verb: to equivalence A and B means to write an EQUIVALENCE statement to control their relative starting addresses as in DIMENSION A(100),B(101) EQUIVALENCE (A(1),B(2)) ------------------------------------------------------------ p.s. who says Fortran-66 doesn't support zero-based arrays?