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- From: mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig)
- Subject: Storage of Fortran character strings on Cray
- Message-ID: <MRL.92Dec16094950@sun4.uai.com>
- Sender: mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig)
- Organization: Universal Analytics, Inc., Torrance (LA), CA
- Date: 16 Dec 92 09:49:50
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- I'd appreciate information or pointers to information about how
- Fortran character strings are stored on Cray machines. I have the
- impression that sometimes they are word-aligned, but I don't know how
- they then honor the X3.9-1978 standard which requires adjacency of
- elements of a character array. Perhaps only the first element of the
- array is mandatorily aligned, and rest are also aligned only if the
- length of each element is an integer multiple of 8?
-
- Hopefully related enough to not need a separate post, can someone tell
- me what the addressability is of data on Cray machines? What does the
- machine have to do to extract an arbitrary character from a string?
-
- Thanks in advance.$$
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