Guylaine Prat writes:
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> > My reading of SEQUENCE is that it does allow padding for alignment. Its main
> > restrictions are
> >
> > ......
> >
> > 2. That the size of a sequence type be compatible with use in a common block
>
> But if the type contains numerical values AND characters, I suppose that it could
> led to some problems for the use in a common block ?
Seems to me there is something backwards in this question. It is
precisely because sequence does allow padding that this should not be
a problem. That's the kind of thing the padding is for.
> I remember getting some problems in fortran 77 when one mixes numerical values and chararcters
> in the same common block.
As noted by another replier, if you did this, you weren't using f77,
but rather some vendor extension.
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