[J3] Description of MOLD in an allocate statement.

[Steve Lionel]

Tom,

I understand your confusion; it took me a bit too. The key is that the 
BNF for both SOURCE= and MOLD= is /source-expr/. You can then find what 
happens when /source-expr/ appears in p5.  Further, C949 prohibits both 
SOURCE= and MOLD= from appearing.

Steve

On 12/16/2025 9:47 AM, Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101) via J3 wrote:
> Perhaps my PDF search is failing me, but as far as I can tell the only 
> description of the functionality of |MOLD=|​  in the standard is the 
> following on p160 of 25-007r1:
>
> /If //MOLD= //appears and //source-expr //is a variable, its value 
> need not be defined./
>
>
> Hopefully I’m just not finding it.  Otherwise, surely we can provide 
> just a bit of normative text describing the intent here?
>
>  *
>     Tom
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