Re: busting sp datatypes

Ron Ford <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Had you read the thread more carefully, you may have seen the motivation to
posit that '4' was special,

Possibly, but when it is hard for me to read the single sentences,
reading the whole thread carefully is too much. I tend to not bother to
try very hard. In any case, I wasn't asking about the motivation of the
question, but rather about what the question actually was, which this
didn't clarify. But anyway...

qsort is in C's stdlib; can fortran make the necessary interface?

I haven't looked at the interface to qsort. Being in stdlib is
irrelevant to the question. Knowing what the interface actually is would
be a lot more relevant.

Yes, I could no doubt go look it up, if I were inclined to. Is there
some reason why you ask me in particular and is it supposed to be
related to anything in this thread? I'm not sure why I would be the
particular designee and I don't see qsort or anything else about sorting
upthread. I've been intentionally ignoring most of the separate thread
about sorting, as it didn't seem to me to have much to do with Fortran,
at least in the initial post that I read. I suppose it might later have
drifted onto topic when I wasn't watching.

I still don't know what you mean with the word 'interp'.

It is an abbreviation for "interpretation". It is the vernacular used
for formal requests for interpretation of the standard. Insomuch as the
official precedures for such things are cumbersome and slow,
interpretation requests generally ought to be about things where the
standard is flawed in some way, either being ambiguous, internally
inconsistent, impractical to implement, or otherwise in need of repair.

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