Allocatable Huge

[JohnNichols]

Dear Steve:

I was reading the old Microsoft FORTRAN reference manual about allocatable - it says you need to use the huge statement - what is the huge statement - is it not required anymore?

JMN

[IanH]

I never used allocatables in Microsoft Fortran, but I suspect that refers to a means of selecting a particular memory model on 16 bit architecture.

It is certainly not required today with current compilers.

[mecej4]

HUGE was created to be able large arrays on 16-bit MS/PC-DOS. Best forgotten.

[JohnNichols]

Thanks for the note: 

I remember DOS 2 and there being no path command and one ran MS Fortran on two 360k floppy drives.