[J3] Question to "The CFI_section function"

[Robert Corbett]

There appears to be a problem
in paragraph 3 of 18.5.3.  I leave
it for others to check if the
second sentence of the
paragraph is correct.

Bob Corbett

> On Nov 12, 2019, at 4:24 AM, Tobias Burnus via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
>> On 11/12/19 1:06 PM, Tobias Burnus via J3 wrote:
>> what's the expected 'lower_bound's of the array descriptor 'result' after a call to "18.5.5.7 The CFI_section function"? My feeling is that 0 is intended but I cannot find it in the spec.
> 
> Follow-up question: what are the 'lower_bound's after a call to CFI_establish (18.5.5.5)?
> 
> For allocatables, the input is a null pointer/deallocated. And for pointers, there is "if the attribute argument has the value CFI_attribute_pointer, the lower bounds of the object described by dv are set to zero."
> 
> But what's about CFI_attribute_other? Shall they also start at 0 – like most descriptors on the C side? Or at 1 as they would in Fortran or …? The following sentence "The remaining properties of the object are given by the other arguments." does not really help.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tobias
> 
> PS: Are there already some (draft) corrigenda for Fortran 2018? I haven't seen any, but I might have missed them.
>