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CORRECT INCONSISTENT STRING ARGUMENTS TO ...

Syntax:

CORRECT [INCONSISTENT] STRING ARGUMENTS { TO | BY } { HOLLERITHS | %REF }

Function:

Early versions of Fortran did not support character variables. Character strings were manipulated and passed to sub-programs in numeric variables. For example:

SUBROUTINE DLABEL(DNAME,DVAL) DOUBLE PRECISION DNAME,DVAL WRITE (6,100)DNAME,DVAL 100 FORMAT (A8,F14.5) RETURN END PROGRAM MAIN : DOUBLE PRECISION V : CALL DLABEL(8HVelocity, V) :

Some Fortran systems allow string literals to be passed in the same way as the Hollerith literal used above, for example:

CALL DLABEL ( 'Velocity', V)

Some compilers and linkers do not support this usage. The difficulty is that the literal string is passed as a descriptor or by address and length, but the double precision number is usually passed by reference, i.e. by address only. The code may be corrected in two ways:

1. The string may be converted to an Hollerith literal.
2. The string may be passed by reference, rather than by descriptor, using the pseudo-function %REF.

fpt may be instructed to use either mechanism by the commands:

CORRECT INCONSISTENT STRING ARGUMENTS TO HOLLERITHS

CORRECT INCONSISTENT STRING ARGUMENTS TO %REF

Please note that neither of these strategies conforms to the Fortran 95 standard or later.

Where to Use this Command

Default

CORRECT INCONSISTENT STRING ARGUMENTS TO HOLLERITHS

(Note that defaults may be changed in the configuration file)

See Also

CORRECT INCONSISTENT ARGUMENTS

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