Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: R Daneel Olivaw Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as integer*8 ? Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:37:07 +0200 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:37:07 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="769291"; posting-host="XBJBjenliTep7OIZ0g9xdw.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 Bytes: 2342 Lines: 27 Thomas Koenig wrote: > Lynn McGuire schrieb: > >> "DYNOSOR: a set of subroutines for dynamic memory organization in >> Fortran programs" >> https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/954654.954661 >> >> One of our guys went to an ACM conference in 1977 and came back with >> this paper. It was the answer to our memory problems on the Univac >> 1108, the CDC 7600, and later the IBM 370. > > Only the first page is readable, the rest is behind paywall, > unfortunately. > >> >> I converted the memory allocation scheme from a common block in 1992 ??? >> to using the C malloc, realloc, and free library functions. Worked like >> a champ on Unix, Vax VMS, IBM mainframes, and PC DOS using various F77 >> compilers. > > If you're already using dynamic allocation, then you can of course > keep on doing what you are doing. It will not be officially > supported, but the likelyhood of this continuing to work is high > (no guarantees, though). > If it ain't broke, don't fix it. (unless there are really good reasons)