From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25247 invoked by alias); 5 Oct 2002 20:48:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 25239 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2002 20:48:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO book.moene.indiv.nluug.nl) (195.109.255.217) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Oct 2002 20:48:17 -0000 Received: from local ([127.0.0.1] helo=moene.indiv.nluug.nl) by book.moene.indiv.nluug.nl with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xvs0-0000Ct-00; Sat, 05 Oct 2002 22:49:52 +0200 Message-ID: <3D9F5070.8010902@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 15:00:00 -0000 From: Toon Moene Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020622 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Dewar CC: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, nathan@codesourcery.com Subject: Re: Type based aliasing References: <20021005203332.A8670F2CAF@nile.gnat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00368.txt.bz2 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. -- Toon Moene - mailto:toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl - phoneto: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands Maintainer, GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html Join GNU Fortran 95: http://g95.sourceforge.net/ (under construction)