[J3] (SC22WG5.6327) Questions on F_C_STRING

[Bill Long]

I would note that UTI-017 included the issue of C_CHAR = -1 for the C_F_STRPOINTER procedure and the following sentence was added to the end of the description:

"If C_CHAR has the value −1, indicating that there is no C character kind, the generic subroutine C_F_ STRPOINTER does not have any specific procedure.”

A similar sentence could be added to F_C_STRING. 

Also note that corrections that are intended to be in the F20fX draft should be submitted  in papers written against 21-007.pdf for the meeting next month (meeting 223). 

Cheers,
Bill


> On Jan 23, 2021, at 11:02 AM, Steve Lionel via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> Yes, adding the sentence is useful. We thought about what, if anything, we could say in the standard, but the concept applies to many other intrinsics and it did not seem useful to talk about it.
> 
> Vipul asked about ASIS, though I'm unsure what he wanted to know. When we first discussed the proposal, it was felt that some people would like the trim and some not, so we added ASIS. There is some corollary to the new AT format descriptor, but there we decided to always trim.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 1/23/2021 11:30 AM, Bader, Reinhold wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>  
>> thanks for this feedback. I came across this because I’m preparing a paper that adds examples to the module procedures where such are missing.
>> I’ll also add the missing sentence for the case C_CHAR=-1 to that paper, if that’s OK for you.
>>  
>> Does the forum support attaching paper drafts or should I upload a draft to the J3 meeting area and link to there?
>>  
>> Regards
>> Reinhold
>>  
>>  

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