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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by guitarbill on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:05PM (#13208262)
Having never done it with Fortran, I don't know. It should be possible, because e.g. on Linux, everything adheres to the ABI. However, the ABI doesn't specify how to interpret pointers AFAIK. Array ordering [0] and indexing is different in Fortran compared to C, so I'm sure there's pitfalls you'd have to account for.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row-_and_column-major_order

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by dfgasfjhjhsdojj on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:37PM (#13208642)
Fortran arrays can be indexed however you like. Code that is designed to be called from C can be written with 0 indexed arrays.
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran by guitarbill on Monday December 19, 2016 @02:34AM (#13210043)
Sure, but you still have to remember to do so :)
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