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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: how do you send a fortran character string from GCC to GFortran ?
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 10:11:45 -0000 (UTC)
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Thomas Jahns <jahns@idontlikespam.dkrz.de> schrieb:
> On 2025-01-02 23:38, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> Isn't the character string length variable "slen" a value parameter and size_t 
>> type ?
>
> Depends: gfortran 8 and subsequent versions use size_t, older versions and other 
> compilers use int AFAIK.
>
> I guess, handling strings beyond 2GB is not a particular strength of Fortran 
> anyway, so I don't know why that change was made.

There should be as few artificial limitations in a compiler as possible.