Misc Qns...

[Dave Thompson]

Mark F. Haigh wrote:

(snip regarding unaligned access and pointers)


Mostly because Fortran COMMON requires no padding bytes, so it is
easy to generate unaligned data.

To be clear, standardly *requires* that there *not* be any padding.

(At least it used to. It may have changed by now.)

COMMON hasn't. But there is a new improved and often preferable
*alternative*, a MODULE containing data (and possibly routines), which
does allow alignment and also (standardly) provides better checking.

Much as even C99 still has K&R1 functions, but prototypes are better.

- David.Thompson1 at worldnet.att.net