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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Vorbr=FCggen?= <jvorbrueggen@not-mediasec.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:10:32 +0200
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>>If I have a native complex type, the language implementor is free to arrange
>>the real and imaginary part in memory as he sees fit,
> Although Fortran does restrict the implementation, so the langauge
> implementer is not fully free.

Is that through sequence association - i.e., I can assume (conceptually)
an EUIVALENCE of two reals, the real and imaginary part in that order, to
be in place for a complex variable?

	Jan