Besides all that Richard says, I seem to remember that at least one early implementation of F77, which introduced Character into the
standard, stored an integer length or some other "descriptor" ahead of the string, but inside the storage region that would be
referenced by the EQUIVALENCE statement.
= Loren P Meissner
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Subject: Re: Data type "UNDEFINED"
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> equivalence of character and non-character entities is not [...]
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