(j3.2006) Assumed-type and TRANSFER

[Lionel, Steve]

Ah, right. I should have remembered the extensive discussion we had about
TRANSFER when source and mold have different lengths.  Never mind!

Steve

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On Sep 30, 2016, at 11:28 AM, Lionel, Steve <steve.lionel at intel.com> wrote:

> I was working on some code where it would have been handy to put an
assumed-type dummy argument as the first argument to TRANSFER, which is not
allowed per C710 in 16-007r2. I haven't been able to figure out what problem
there would be in allowing this, and haven't located any earlier discussion
of it. Is there something I overlooked? I know how to work around this, but
it feels awkward and unnecessary since TRANSFER doesn't care at all about
the type of its first argument.
>  

But it does care about how many bits are in the value. That is the rub.

Cheers,
Bill

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