C, Fortran, and single-character strings

Re:C, Fortran, and single-character strings by eridius on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:48PM (#20246207)

If the breakage is ultimately caused by compilers like GCC omitting the length for single-character strings, why doesn't this discuss the fix of simply changing GCC to start putting the length there for single-character strings?

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Re:C, Fortran, and single-character strings by 0xffff2 on Friday June 21, 2019 @04:58PM (#20246264)

I've never used FORTRAN, so I'm just going off of my reading of the article. It looks to me like the correct requirement is that the C source code itself include the string length, and that developer have not been doing so.

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Re:C, Fortran, and single-character strings by eridius on Friday June 21, 2019 @06:30PM (#20246799)

Oh I see. I was thinking that calls to Fortran functions were actually recognizable by the compiler, but you're right, the code snippet right at the top shows a manually-inserted strlen(s) in the C code.

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