From rz48@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Wed Jan 29 21:18:56 1997 Received: from nz11.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (nz11.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.64.7]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA09302 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:18:52 +0100 Message-Id: <199701292018.VAA09302@dkuug.dk> Received: from ry71.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de by nz11.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with SMTP (PP); Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:18:42 +0100 Received: by ry71.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA06170; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:18:41 +0100 Subject: dope and binary compatibility To: khb@Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman QED) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:18:40 +0100 (CET) Cc: mpi-bind@mcs.anl.gov, sc22wg5@dkuug.dk In-Reply-To: <199701291957.LAA04286@chiba.eng.sun.com> from "Keith Bierman QED" at Jan 29, 97 11:57:05 am From: hennecke@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Michael Hennecke) Reply-To: hennecke@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Michael Hennecke) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1159 According to Keith Bierman QED: > Note that changing the way this works (dope vs. nondope) breaks binary > compatibility on a given platform, and impacts other products in the > environment (e.g. the debugger). Note that since PASS_BY("descriptor") would only be allowed in a BIND(C) interface, this could not affect the normal Fortran-Fortran compatibility. And the Fortran-C compatibility is absent before the Interop TR, so we have an overall improvement... Even without that PASS_BY("descriptor") option, the Interop TR will affect products like the debugger. Thanks, Michael ====================================================================== Michael Hennecke http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Michael.Hennecke/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Karlsruhe RFC822: hennecke@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Computing Center (G20.21 R210) No longer on BITNET :-( Zirkel 2 * P.O. Box 69 80 Phone: +49 721 608-4862 D-76128 Karlsruhe Fax: +49 721 32550 ======================================================================