Hi Arjen (for the second time because I screwed up the plplot-devel mailing list address on my first try so please don't reply to that one):
Could you comment on this bug report on list (as well as the bug tracker)? Is it really a violation of Fortran standards if the LHS array bounds are larger than the RHS array bounds? I don't have much Fortran 95 experience, but I had assumed before reading this bug report that such assignments would just fill in part of the LHS array corresponding to the bounds of the RHS array and leave the rest of the LHS array undefined, but the bug report refers to a URL which implies such bound mismatches might lead to issues for some compilers. Is that because the compilers are at fault or are bounds mismatches a real violation of the Fortran standards? The other issue is that even if I am right and such assignments are allowed, there may still be a bug because the underlying PLplot library could potentially get the wrong size for the defined part of the array. If by chance we are accidentally avoiding that bug because another array is used to set the array size processed by PLplot, perhaps you should put in some array-size consistency checks into the Fortran 95 bindings similar to what we have for all the swig-generated bindings, and use that check to discover and eliminate all cases where there are currently mismatches in array bounds. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
