[Wien] little fortran question

[Andrew Smith]

Hi Christian

Common blocks are bad news and blank common blocks (the oldest type) even worse. You just may have to reorder the parameters from largest to smallest as suggested.

There is a good description on :

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/ch2-7.html  

Andrew Smith
School of Physics and Materials Engineering
Monash University
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----- Original Message -----
From: koitzsch <Christian.Koitzsch at gmx.ch>
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:31 pm
Subject: [Wien] little fortran question

> Hi Everybody,
> 
> I have a question, which is not so much Wien-related but more a 
> question to somebody that knows Fortran well. I hope you don't 
> mind if we abuse the mailing list for that, I just hoped some of 
> you might know the answer to our problem, we would really 
> appreciate that.
> 
> I am trying to transfer an old scattering code from VAX to Linux. 
> Upon compilation with f77 the comiler complains about common block 
> formats:"Padding of 4 bytes required in common block -consider 
> reordering members, largest-type-size first"
> 
> Does anybody of you know what I can do about that? 
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Christian Koitzsch
> 
> Université de Neuchâtel
> Institut de Physique
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