ITEM: H3676L

sx6/pmr 6x945/call customer/Item H3676/

Question:

The customer would like to know how the malloc function works in Fortran.

Response:

While porting code from other platforms (Fortran), calls to malloc(\#)
always return 0.  This is a pass-by-value vs. pass-by-reference
problem.

The Fortran operatore %VAL() will cause an argument to be passed by
value (the default is by reference).  Thus, the malloc() function will
receive a parameter that is valid, and return a valid block of memory.



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Dated: March 1994 Category: N/A

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