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  1. Xref: sparky comp.lang.c:20225 comp.lang.fortran:5189
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  4. From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
  5. Subject: Re: calling a Fortran subroutine from a C program
  6. References: <1993Jan22.233618.17814@chpc.utexas.edu> <1993Jan23.152153.7178@biome.bio.ns.ca> <ig25.728061129@fg30>
  7. Sender: nobody@ctr.columbia.edu
  8. Organization: Dept. of Chem, Columbia U, New York
  9. Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:06:22 GMT
  10. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.160622.24483@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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  16. In article <ig25.728061129@fg30> ig25@fg30.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes:
  17. >An implementation might very well choose to start every character
  18. >variable on a word boundary, for speed reasons.
  19. >
  20. >      CHARACTER*1 STRING(100)
  21. >
  22. >would then appear to C to be an array of ints, instead of chars.
  23.  
  24. I think Cray in fact does this, while placing CHARACTER*1 scalars
  25. on byte boundaries.
  26.  
  27.     -P.
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  30. Peter S. Shenkin, Box 768 Havemeyer Hall, Dept. of Chemistry, Columbia Univ.,
  31. New York, NY  10027;  shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu;  (212) 854-5143
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