(j3.2006) pointer arguments to PURE procedures

[Malcolm Cohen]

Hi Tobias,

>I would like to come back to this thread. Seemingly,  pointer arguments
>of pure functions may be modified since Fortran 2008 - all seem to agree
>on that.

Maybe.  I've not seen "all" respond...

>My question is whether that change was on purpose and should stay or
>whether it was an accidentally created loophole which should be plugged
>again? If the latter, it probably makes sense to fill an IR.
>
>If the change was on purpose, can someone provide me with a rational?

In this situation there is no alternative to doing the grunt work that is going 
through the draft revisions of F2008 and finding which one has the new (bad) 
wording - you will want to use binary chop on that task.  Then looking at the 
editor's report and the papers that went into that draft, any paper that makes a 
technical change must describe what technical change is being attempted or at 
least reference back to an earlier paper which formally describes the technical 
change.

All these papers (including the draft revisions) are on the J3 web site.

I recommend doing this research before submitting an interpretation request.

Cheers,
-- 
................................Malcolm Cohen, Nihon NAG, Tokyo.