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   Thomas Jahns to Lynn McGuire   
   Re: how do you send a fortran character    
   09 Jan 25 10:25:10   
   
   From: jahns@idontlikespam.dkrz.de   
      
   On 2025-01-02 23:38, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   > Isn't the character string length variable "slen" a value parameter and   
   size_t   
   > type ?   
      
   Depends: gfortran 8 and subsequent versions use size_t, older versions and   
   other   
   compilers use int AFAIK.   
      
   I guess, handling strings beyond 2GB is not a particular strength of Fortran   
   anyway, so I don't know why that change was made.   
      
   Thomas   
      
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