8th Nov. 2000
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> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 21:01:44 -0500
> Up to 20 years ago, there was a fairly common practice of writing code using a single
> subscripted array to step through a multiple subscripted array, and a range checker
> which could accept that prac
>
I wasn't referring to that practice, which is not relevant to the thread.
> Tim
> robin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Some F77 compilers did provide bounds checking, but
> of those that did, some resorted to tricks on the
> pretext of "saving time", pretending that they did
> (proper) subscript checking.
> One was that if the computed address was within the
> array, then it was "valid" (even if one or more subscripts
> was out-of-bounds).
> Subscript checking in F90 and F95 compilers is, in general, more rigorous
> than in the days of F77.
>
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