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From: Aleksandar Donev <donev1@llnl.gov>
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Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.3722) [ukfortran] the interoperability TR - =?iso-8859-1?q?an=09alternative_descriptor?= design
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:10:30 -0800
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On Wednesday 03 December 2008 14:50, N.M. Maclaren wrote:

> N1761 addresses solely the cases where the
> arguments are arrays of intrinsic element types, or pointers to intrinsic
> types. =A0It may be intended to address more, but I do not think that it
> does.
It is intended to cover all interoperable types. In particular, this works:

subroutine sub(x) bind(c)
   type(interoperable_t), dimension(:) :: x
end subroutine

and it passes a descriptor where the elem_size field is set to the sizeof t=
he=20
corresponding interoperable C struct.

Perhaps you can explain why N1761 does not cover this case---again, I canno=
t=20
read your mind here.

Thanks,
Aleks