Re: [pure-lang-users] C macros

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> That's good to know, thanks! Yes, I agree, it would indeed be utterly 
> insane to do it in a different way.

It's all about the weirdness of the Fortran EQUIVALENCE statement, which
lets you declare the exact overlap pattern of global storage, thus:

        EQUIVALENCE(I(5), A(2,7))

where I is an integer vector and A is a floating-point matrix.

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