(j3.2006) Are there 2008/2015 equivalents of 2003 C.9.6?

[Malcolm Cohen]

(1) ?Fortran 2003 constraint C.9.6?, is a little confused.  C.9.6 is informative i.e. it is not normative.  It is not a ?constraint?, it is a subclause.

(2) There is not similar language in F2008 for very good reason ? we added a new feature, viz (from the Introduction):
  An actual argument with the TARGET attribute can correspond to a dummy pointer.
I hope that answers your question as to why the explanatory text at the back of the standard is different.

However I?m not going to go trawling a newsgroup thread looking for a coding question to answer... (feel free to post further questions, and I will answer if I?m around, but I?ve actually just gone on a short holiday and will be out of email contact quite a lot of the time).

Cheers,

From: Damian Rouson 
Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2017 1:12 AM
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Cc: Thomas Koenig ; Paul Richard Thomas 
Subject: (j3.2006) Are there 2008/2015 equivalents of 2003 C.9.6?

All,


Fortran 2003 constraint C.9.6 includes the following text:


"If a dummy argument is declared to be a pointer, it may be matched only by an actual argument that also is a pointer, and the characteristics of both arguments shall agree. A model for such an association is that descriptor values of the actual pointer are copied to the dummy pointer?"


I haven't found similar language in Fortran 2008 or in the Fortran 2015 February draft (17-007r1). I assume that constraint C.10.4 in 2008 and 2015 are the descendants of 2003 C.9.6 -- at least the titles match -- but in 2008/2015, C.10.4 is written very differently from 2003 C.9.6 and I can't discern any vestiges of the above quoted language.  Does similar language appear somewhere else or was it dropped from the standard?  A related coding question appears at the beginning of the comp.lang.fortran thread:


https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.fortran/QbMFCNP_DuY

Damian



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