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Help with Dynamic Arrays and COMMON blocks

Ernie_P_1
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‎09-10-2008 08:38 AM
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Hello,

I am trying to increase the performance of one of my programs. This program has about 70 subroutines that share data usuallythrough the use ofCOMMON blocks. Many ofthe common blocksconsist of 3-dimensional arrays. I'd like to make these arrays dynamic as they currently are defined with the maximum size I could need. This wastes a lot of memory.

Can I use dynamic arrays in COMMON blocks? Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Aaron

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Steven_L_Intel1
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‎09-10-2008 08:47 AM
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You can put a POINTER array in COMMON, but not ALLOCATABLE. Let me suggest the use of module variables (which can be ALLOCATABLE) as an alternative to COMMON.
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