(j3.2006) Interop observation

[Keith Bierman]

Obviously highly platform dependent. But unix flavored environments are common enough that a note wouldn't be unreasonable (IMNSO )

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On Feb 6, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Van Snyder <Van.Snyder at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> A colleague has observed that it's not terribly difficult to construct a
> duplicate definition using interop features.
> 
> The example was
> 
>    SUBROUTINE AnyNamesubf(i)BIND(C,NAME="csubf_")
>    USE, INTRINSIC :: iso_c_binding, ONLY: c_int
> 
>      INTEGER(c_int) :: i
>      CALL Csubf(i)
>    END SUBROUTINE AnyNamesubf
> 
> where Csubf was a non-interoperable Fortran external subroutine.
> 
> I don't think this is a normative issue for the standard, but should we
> put a note somewhere that might help people not create these?  Maybe
> something like advising not to give binding names to Fortran procedures
> that are all lower case (or all upper case) and are sufficiently similar
> to the external names of non-interoperable Fortran external procedures
> that the linker might be sent the same name for both of them.
> 
> 
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