From helbig@man.ac.uk Sun Aug 23 19:31:17 1998 Received: from ratatosk.DK.net (root@ratatosk.DK.net [193.88.44.22]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA00315 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 19:31:14 +0200 Received: from multivac (multivac.jb.man.ac.uk [130.88.24.128]) by ratatosk.DK.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA24927 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:08:55 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 16:06:49 GMT Message-Id: <98082316064901@man.ac.uk> From: helbig@man.ac.uk (Phillip Helbig) To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1534) String standard, module and F95 X-VMS-To: SC22WG5@DKUUG.DK X-VMS-Cc: HELBIG %MAIL-W-TOOMANYFINGERS, too many fingers typing simultaneously Sorry for forwarding the previous message before editing it as below! j.l.schonfelder@liverpool.ac.uk wrote: > I may be naive but I > have always thought automatic objects built on the stack were more efficient > that allocatable ones built on the heap. Is the assumption automatic=stack and allocatable=heap always valid, i.e. is this what all compilers (must) do? -- Phillip Helbig Email ......... p.helbig@jb.man.ac.uk Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories Tel. .... +44 1477 571 321 (ext. 297) Jodrell Bank Fax ................ +44 1477 571 618 Macclesfield Telex ................ 36149 JODREL G UK-Cheshire SK11 9DL Web ... http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pjh/