> However, this will also affect people doing C->Fortran calls the > old-fashioned way without ISO_C_BINDING, as they will have to change > the string length argument from int to size_t in their prototypes. > Then again, Intel Fortran did this some years ago so I guess at least > people who care about portability to several compilers are aware.
We do a ton of this (old fashioned c-fortran binding) and changing the string length argument size will have a big impact on us. We don't use the Intel compiler so we never noticed a change there. Is there really a use case for strings > 2 GB that justifies the breakage? I certainly understand wanting to do it "right" but I'm probably not the only one with practical considerations that argue against it if there are no compelling use cases. Thanks... -Bob Bob Deen @ NASA-JPL Multimission Image Processing Lab bob.d...@jpl.nasa.gov
