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type_ARRAY_ARG - Pass an array argument to a FORTRAN routine

Description:
Pass an array argument of the appropriate type to a FORTRAN routine. The argument should be the address of the array. (type not LOCATOR.)

Invocation:
type_ARRAY_ARG(p_arg)

Arguments:

p_arg
A pointer to the actual array being passed.

Examples:

type_ARRAY_ARG(arg)
will expand as follows:

All systems: (F77_type_TYPE *)arg


Notes:
The cast in the expansion for Unix ensures that multi-dimensional arrays (arrays of arrays), for example as declared by DECLARE_type_ARRAY, may be passed.
Associated macro:
CHARACTER_ARRAY_ARG



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CNF and F77 Mixed Language Programming -- FORTRAN and C
Starlink User Note 209
P.M. Allan
A.J. Chipperfield
R.F. Warren-Smith
19 January 2000
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk