(j3.2006) Further C descriptors

Robert Corbett robert.corbett
Thu May 10 03:09:24 EDT 2012


On 05/10/12 00:01, Malcolm Cohen wrote:
>> A Fortran implementation might assume that the value stored for the lower 
>> bound of an array dimension of a Fortran pointer must be one.
>
> Since that is untrue of pointers created by Fortran, that would be a very poor 
> implementation.
>
> Cheers,

I left off part of the sentence.  I meant to say that in the case of an array 
dimension that has size zero, the implementation might assume that the value of 
the lower bound is one.

Robert Corbett



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