Allocatable arrays in types

[lucaletizia]

Hi,

I would like to know whether the FORTRAN 6.6A patch allows to have an allocatable array in a user defined type .
So far the only way of allocate the dimension of an array in a type at run time was to use Pointer, Dimension, but it gives some problems when communicating with C++

Thanks Luca

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Yes, it does, but you'll have the same problem in that the descriptor used is the same as for POINTER.

Steve

[Jugoslav_Dujic]

We use Cray (Integer) Pointers for just that purpose, which are basically the same as C pointers [and declare structure members as INTEGER(PTR_KIND) -- there's now intrinsic IIRC SELECTED_PTR_KIND()]. The code for accessing is not so elegant but it better fits to C++ than tweaking array descriptors on C++ side.

Jugoslav

[Steven_L_Intel1]

INT_PTR_KIND is the intrinsic.

Steve