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From: Dan Nagle <dnagle@erols.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Passing Unconstrained Arrays from FORTRAN to an Ada95 subunit
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:32:33 -0400
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Hello,

That depends on how the array is declared in the Fortran.

integer, dimension(n) :: a          ! pass starting address
integer, dimension(*) :: a          ! pass starting address, no length
integer, dimension(:) :: a          ! pass descriptor

For the (:) case, check the Fortran compiler's documentation
for the descriptor definition.  Most compilers supply this
data, a few :-( consider this to be a proprietary secret.
A few experiments should indicate how it works anyway.

-- 
Cheers!

Dan Nagle
Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.

<snip>
>Does modern Fortran pass the length implicitly?  Apparently your Ada
>compiler doesn't think so.