(j3.2006) Adventures in sections of constant arrays

Van Snyder Van.Snyder
Mon Mar 6 19:40:59 EST 2017


On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 21:33 +0000, Steidel, Jon L wrote:
> It used to be that Cray made a copy of constants to pass as actual
> arguments, so that if the argument was overwritten, the original
> constant was untouched.  That still be the case for the Cray
> implementation. 

Lahey/Fujitsu lf95 had a --pca command-line switch, meaning "protect
constant arguments," that copied them.





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