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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!sisifo.arcetri.astro.it!sisifo!lfini
  3. From: lfini@sisifo (Luca Fini)
  4. Subject: Re: Block Data is evil
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan21.074755.14939@arcetri.astro.it>
  6. Sender: news@arcetri.astro.it
  7. Organization: Osservatorio di Arcetri
  8. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
  9. References: <1993Jan20.143408@roper.mc.ti.com>
  10. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:47:55 GMT
  11. Lines: 16
  12.  
  13. W. Donald Rolph (a722756@roper.mc.ti.com) wrote:
  14. : Equivalence is in some cases the only possiblity for run time memory allocation
  15. :
  16.  
  17. Equivalence is *not* a run rime memory allocation, you simply call the
  18. same memory area with different names (and possibly use it as different
  19. data types).
  20.  
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  22. | Luca Fini                                                              |
  23. | Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri     Tel.   +55 2752 253            |
  24. | L.go E.Fermi, 5                         Fax.:  +55 220039              |
  25. | 50125 Firenze                           e-mail: lfini@arcetri.astro.it |
  26. | Italia                                                                 |
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