From bill@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com Wed Feb 2 04:57:48 1994 Received: from travis.csd.harris.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA05929 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Wed, 2 Feb 1994 15:58:09 +0100 Received: from amber.ssd.csd.harris.com by travis.csd.harris.com (5.61/harris-5.1) id AA11657; Wed, 2 Feb 94 09:57:50 -0500 Received: by amber (5.61/CX/UX-5.0) id AA25048; Wed, 2 Feb 94 09:57:48 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 09:57:48 -0500 From: bill@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com (Bill Leonard) Message-Id: <9402021457.AA25048@amber> To: schmitt@edvz.tuwien.ac.at Cc: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk In-Reply-To: <9402021453.AA11577@travis.csd.harris.com> (SUPERVISOR@edvzbb2.ben-fh.tuwien.ac.at) Subject: Re: Comp.lang.fortran comments on evoluti X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 > From: "Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Schmitt" > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 15:44:57 CET+60 > > No, it's not. We still have SEQUENCE structures that can be storage > > associated as long as the declarations are identical. No reason why > > COMMON blocks can't do the same. > But as you know, COMMON-blocks does not have the same declarations. Don't know what you mean by this. The standard can certainly limit the usage of character and non-character storage in a COMMON block to those cases where storage association can be portably defined. Other cases would be non-standard conforming, as they are now. Bill Leonard Harris Computer Systems Division 2101 W. Cypress Creek Road Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 bill@ssd.csd.harris.com These opinions and statements are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of Harris Corporation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Governments, like individuals, spend money for any or all of three reasons: because they want to, because they have to, or because they have it to spend." Rex Stout ------------------------------------------------------------------------------