[J3] Question to "The CFI_section function"

[Tobias Burnus]

Seems as if all (well, you and Bob) agree on what should be the output 
(which also matches gfortran's implementation). – Can this a bit clearer 
spelt out in the next version of the standard?

Even with the first paragraph, mentioned by Bob,

"Successful execution of CFI_section updates the base_addr and dim 
members of the C descriptor with the address result to describe the 
array section determined by source, lower_bounds, upper_bounds, and 
strides, as follows."

I still do not see why this demands that the lower bounds (of 'source' 
or, if not-NULL, of 'lower_bounds') is not only used to establish the 
array section (and extent) but also the value of lower_bounds of 'result'.

Thanks,

Tobias

On 11/12/19 3:30 PM, Bill Long via J3 wrote:
> The lower_bounds argument to CFI_section is input (const).  What you provide become the lower bounds.  If the argument is not provided (NULL pointer), then the lower bounds are taken from the SOURCE argument.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>> On Nov 12, 2019, at 6:06 AM, Tobias Burnus via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Is it missing or am I just looking at the wrong part of the standard?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tobias
>>
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