[MPI3 Fortran] Request for a straw vote.

Lionel, Steve steve.lionel at intel.com
Wed Jun 10 13:33:24 CDT 2009


Craig Rasmussen wrote:

> In addition we can use C_F_POINTER to "cast" the  
> C_PTR back to a concrete Fortran type.  I don't think we have a way to  
> cast a type(*) to something concrete.

Yes, we do - it is also C_F_POINTER.  The proposal for TYPE(*) allows the appearance of a TYPE(*) dummy argument in C_LOC, so you can cast it to whatever you want.


Steve Lionel
Intel Developer Support
Nashua, NH




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