Re: restated question about externals

apm wrote:
| Does the standard in some direct, indirect or convoluted manner require that
| the caller of an EXTERNAL maintain the stack?

No.

The standard does not even know what stack is. It wouldn't surprise me
if there was a Fortran for stackless machines.

CVF has (had?) the default calling convention STDCALL, where the callee
cleans the stack. IVF (and possibly others) have that as an option. If the
compiled code is standard-conforming, the stack cleaning mechanism doesn't
matter.

| Fortrans I've used seem to work this way. I'd feel better if it in some way
| were required by the standard.

My condolence :-).

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