Global Variables???

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The following code is a nonlinear regression example taken from the IMSL statistics library. The name of the IMSL subroutine that performs the nonlinear regression is RNLIN. The comments in the code below explain how the user must provide a subroutine (EXAMPL) that defines the curve that will get fit to a set of (x, y) data. The IMSL documentation specifies the arguments that the user-supplied subroutine must have, and none of those arguments allow you to pass your (x, y) data set in. In the IMSL example, the (x, y) data is hard coded into the subroutine EXAMPL. How do I enter my own (x, y) data without hard coding it? I'd like to be able to define two global variables like:
real(4) XData(NumPoints), YData(NumPoints)
which can be seen by the calling program and by the user-supplied subroutine. The problem is, I don't think I can declare XData to be common because it contains NumPoints as an argument, making it an automatic object. Thanks.

C 
C Fit a nonlinear regression model. 
C 
C The user must supply a SUBROUTINE to return the residual, weight, 
C and frequency for a single observation at the given value of the 
C regression parameter vector.  This subroutine, called EXAMPL here, 
C must be declared EXTERNAL in the calling program and must have the 
C specified calling sequence. 
C 
C 
C 
      INTERFACE TO SUBROUTINE EXAMPL (NPARM, THETA, IOPT, IOBS, FRQ, 
     &                   WT, E, DE, IEND) 
      INTEGER    NPARM, IOPT, IOBS, IEND 
      REAL       THETA(NPARM), FRQ, WT, E, DE(1) 
      END 
C 
      INTEGER    LDR, NOBS, NPARM 
      PARAMETER  (NOBS=15, NPARM=2, LDR=NPARM) 
C 
      INTEGER    IDERIV, IRANK, NOUT 
      REAL       DFE, R(LDR,NPARM), SSE, THETA(NPARM) 
      EXTERNAL   EXAMPL, RNLIN, UMACH, WRRRN 
C 
      DATA THETA/60.0, -0.03/ 
C 
      CALL UMACH (2, NOUT) 
C 
      IDERIV = 0 
      CALL RNLIN (EXAMPL, NPARM, IDERIV, THETA, R, LDR, IRANK, DFE, 
     &            SSE) 
      WRITE (NOUT,*) 'THETA = ', THETA 
      WRITE (NOUT,*) 'IRANK = ', IRANK, '  DFE = ', DFE, '  SSE = ', 
     &              SSE 
      CALL WRRRN ('R', NPARM, NPARM, R, LDR, 0) 
      END 
C 
C 
C 
C 
      SUBROUTINE EXAMPL (NPARM, THETA, IOPT, IOBS, FRQ, WT, E, DE, 
     &                   IEND) 
      INTEGER    NPARM, IOPT, IOBS, IEND 
      REAL       THETA(NPARM), FRQ, WT, E, DE(1) 
C 
      INTEGER    NOBS 
      PARAMETER  (NOBS=15) 
C 
      REAL       EXP, XDATA(NOBS), YDATA(NOBS) 
      INTRINSIC  EXP 
C 
      DATA YDATA/54.0, 50.0, 45.0, 37.0, 35.0, 25.0, 20.0, 16.0, 18.0, 
     &     13.0, 8.0, 11.0, 8.0, 4.0, 6.0/ 
      DATA XDATA/2.0, 5.0, 7.0, 10.0, 14.0, 19.0, 26.0, 31.0, 34.0, 
     &     38.0, 45.0, 52.0, 53.0, 60.0, 65.0/ 
C 
      IF (IOBS .LE. NOBS) THEN 
         WT   = 1.0E0 
         FRQ  = 1.0E0 
         IEND = 0 
         E    = YDATA(IOBS) - THETA(1)*EXP(THETA(2)*XDATA(IOBS)) 
      ELSE 
         IEND = 1 
      END IF 
      RETURN 
      END