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From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org,  nathan@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: Type based aliasing
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 15:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D9F5070.8010902@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021005203332.A8670F2CAF@nile.gnat.com>

Robert Dewar wrote:

> <<`Define' in Fortran-speak is to `have a value assigned to it and all of
> the entities that are associated with it'.
> 
> Assignment is one way to cause problems here, but not the only one.

> OK, sure, I was using assignment loosely, but the statement that "Fortran
> rules don't allow arguments to overlap at all" is definitely misleading,
> since it is just fine for arguments to overlap providing that no definitions
> occur in an aliased situation.

Yep, this is definitely true and might by worth stressing.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-05 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-05 14:21 Robert Dewar
2002-10-05 15:00 ` Toon Moene [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-05 16:39 Robert Dewar
2002-10-05 12:51 Robert Dewar
2002-10-05 13:33 ` Toon Moene
2002-10-02 14:47 Nathan Sidwell
2002-10-02 15:39 ` Michael Matz
2002-10-02 16:17 ` Michael Matz
2002-10-05 12:00 ` Toon Moene
2002-10-05 12:45   ` Nathan Sidwell

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