When you pass a string to a Fortran routine you should also pass the length
of the string (tipically as an integer passed by value as the last
element).
The latest C interoperability features of Fortran will give you a more safe
and portable way to do it consistently.
:-)
Il giorno lunedì 2 febbraio 2015 19:05:19 UTC+1, benjamin kary ha scritto:
>
> I have a Fortran module which parses a complicated input file to populate
> a workspace with all the variables I need for a certain task. I have
> decimated the fortran code to try and get a single parsing command to
> work. The input to the Fortran function "em_data_read_input" is a string
> containing the name of the input file. The Fortran function returns a
> variable "freq" of type REAL(kind=8). The following causes the julia
> kernel to restart with no error message:
>
> test = ccall( (:__global_variables_MOD_emdata_read_input, "libglobvar"),
> Float64, (Ptr{Int8},), "csem3dfwd.in" )
>
> Is there anything obviously wrong with what I'm trying to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
>
